An early Edison production was The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

Another prominent member was Thomas A. Edison.

A more reliable and controllable method of producing cathode rays was investigated by Hittorf and Goldstein, and rediscovered by Thomas Edison in 1880.

In 1995 the government was defeated in elections by the United Workers Party of Edison James.

At the time, Edison was investigating why the filaments of his carbon-filament light bulbs nearly always burned out at the positive-connected end.

Edison was awarded a patent for this invention in 1884.

Since there was no apparent practical use for such a device at the time, the patent application was most likely simply a precaution in case someone else did find a use for the so-called Edison effect.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

As a result of the work of Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, many researchers in the late 19th century realized that films as they are known today were a practical possibility, but the first to design a fully successful apparatus was W. K. L. Dickson, working under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison.

The other important American competitor was the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which used a new camera designed by Dickson after he left the Edison company.

It was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of " The Jazz Singer " in 1927.

The Edison company took up a projector developed by Armat and Jenkins, the " Phantoscope ", which was renamed the Vitascope, and it joined various projecting machines made by other people to show the 480 mm.

Unique among all the one minute long films made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for their Kinetoscope viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The best known of these film-makers was Edwin S. Porter, who started making films for the Edison Company in 1901.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896.

In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein, which was thought lost for many years.

He was also consultant to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Swan Company, Ferranti, Edison Telephone, and later the Edison Electric Light Company.

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

The MPPC was preceded by the Edison licensing system, in effect in 1907 – 1908, on which the MPPC was modeled.

* Thermionic emission, the flow of charged particles called thermions from a charged metal or a charged metal oxide surface, archaically known as the Edison effect

But the fame bestowed on Edison for this invention ( sometimes called his most original ) was not due to its efficiency.

In 1885, Thomas Edison bought property in Fort Myers, Florida, and built what was later called Seminole Lodge as a winter retreat.

Edison defended Paine's " scientific deism ", saying, " He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not.

If the extra electrode ( also called a " plate " or " anode ") is made more positive than the hot filament, a direct current flows through the vacuum to the anode ( a demonstration of the Edison effect ).

In 1904, as a result of experiments conducted on Edison effect bulbs imported from the USA, he developed a device he called an " oscillation valve " ( because it passes current in only one direction ).

In the United States, Thomas Edison, in the mid-1880s, patented an electromagnetic induction system he called " grasshopper telegraphy ", which allowed telegraphic signals to jump the short distance between a running train and telegraph wires running parallel to the tracks.

In the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, Main Street, Buffalo, New York, Mitchell Mark ( properly spelled Mitchel Mark ) and his brother Moe Mark added what they called Edison's Vitascope Theater ( entered through Edisonia Hall ), which they opened to the general public on October 19, 1896 in collaboration with Rudolf Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories.

Film pioneer Edwin S. Porter produced a seven-minute live-action film adaptation called The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend in 1906 for the Edison Company.

The Edison Military Band performed a piece called " Dream of the Rarebit Fiend " on an Edison cylinder ( Edison 9585 ) in 1907, written by Thomas W. Thurban.

: see also: Raritan, New Jersey ; both Hazlet and Edison, New Jersey were formerly called Raritan Township

In 1876, Thomas Alva Edison set up his home and research laboratory on the site of an unsuccessful real estate development in Raritan Township called Menlo Park.

Township officials have negotiated no housing on the site, to be called " Edison Towne Square.

Originally, Edison had its own high school, but by the late 1940s, Edison had partnered with nearby Burlington to create the Burlington-Edison School District, including a new high school called Burlington-Edison High School.

He would then make a Farmer Al Falfa short for Edison Pictures, called " Farmer Al Falfa's Wayward Pup " ( 1917 ), and some later cartoons were made for Paramount Pictures.

Initially, radio, or wireless as it was more commonly called, was an open field of hobbyists and early inventors and experimenters, including Nikola Tesla, Lee De Forest, and Thomas Edison.

In 1948, he established a charitable foundation, originally called " The Brook Foundation ", now the Charles Edison Fund.

This one-way current was called the Edison effect ( although the term is occasionally used to refer to thermionic emission itself ).

Four years later, the Edison operation came out with its last substantial new film exhibition technology, a short-lived theatrical system called the Super Kinetoscope.

Marvin was called the Edison of manufacturing for his innovations in the bakery business — by 1888 the largest in the United States — and the centerpiece to the organization of the National Biscuit Company ( Nabisco ).

This effect was first observed by Thomas Edison in light bulb filaments, where it is sometimes called the Edison effect, but space charge is a significant phenomenon in many vacuum and solid-state electronic devices.