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.

In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.

In 1908, Edison started the Motion Picture Patents Company, which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios ( commonly known as the Edison Trust ).

This business model, however, came to a halt in 1908 when the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ; commonly known as the Edison Trust ) launched a wave of lawsuits against independent film studios on patent infringement grounds.

Several films in production circa 1907In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr .' s revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908.

This work culminated into Brown ´ s lunar theory ( 1897 .. 1908 ) and Tables of the Motion of the Moon ( 1919 ).

*< cite id = refBrown1908 > E W Brown ( 1908 ), " Theory of the Motion of the Moon ", Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, 59 ( 1908 ), 1-103.

The Daughters of Zelophehad ( illustration from the 1908 Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons )

The assembly line developed by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers.

In 1908, Griffith accepted an acting job for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, commonly known as Biograph, in New York City.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company – a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL – its use on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms.

* Lincoln Motor Car Works, a company that produced cars sold exclusively by mail order by the Sears Roebuck Company from 1908 until 1912

Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.

The product's popularity prompted the Sanitarium Health Food Company to obtain sole rights to distribute the product in New Zealand and Australia in 1908.

New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.

The first combined map was published in 1908 by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) in conjunction with four other underground railway companies using the " Underground " brand as part of a common advertising initiative.

In 1908, a working teleprinter was produced by the Morkrum Company, called the Morkrum Printing Telegraph, which was field tested with the Alton Railroad.

New York Life Insurance Company: 1908.

By 1908 Rosenwald, son of an immigrant clothier, had become part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago.

Much of Chatterton, however, was recorded by the Gramophone Company ( later HMV ) as early as 1908, and remastered on CD almost 100 years later by Marston Records.

In the United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry produced a workable gyrocompass system ( 1908: patent # 1, 242, 065 ), and founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

In April 1908, he was posted to Fort Leavenworth, where he was given his first command, Company K, 3rd Engineer Battalion.

Early electric vacuum cleaner by Electric Suction Sweeper Company, circa 1908

Initially called ' The Electric Suction Sweeper Company ' – their first vacuum was the 1908 Model O, which sold for $ 60.

* American Record Company ( 1904 – 1908, re-activated 1979 ), one of two United States record labels by this name

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway was built by the British in 1908, and was initially operated by the Madras Railway Company.

1908 poster advertising Gaumont Film Company | Gaumont's sound films.

Vitagraph and Edison already had multiple production units, and so had no difficulty meeting their quota, but in 1908 Biograph lost their one working director.

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

Edison sued to gain control of the patent ; however, after a federal court upheld the validity of the patent in 1907, Edison began negotiation with Biograph in May 1908 to reorganize the Edison licensing system.

In 1908, Edison received the American Association of Engineering Societies John Fritz Medal.

While Edison oversaw cursory sound-cinema experiments after the success of The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) and other Edison Manufacturing Company productions, it was not until 1908 that he returned in earnest to the combined audiovisual concept that had first led him to enter the motion picture field.

They were issued as a replacement to the 4 minute black wax Amberol cylinder introduced in 1908 which in turn replaced the 2 minute wax cylinders that Edison had been producing.

One of these as a recording called Cuarteto Coculense by Columbia, Edison and Victor in 1908 and 1909, recognized as the “ first ” mariachi recordings.

Clay-animated films were produced in the United States as early as 1908, when Edison Manufacturing released a trick film entitled The Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Dream.

Having served for many years as Moore's Coleridge Cottage Inn, the building was acquired for the nation in 1908, and the following year it was handed over to the National Trust.

The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey were purchased by the Bath and Wells Diocesan Trust in 1908.

Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda ( 1908 – 1968 ) ( the last Maharaja of the erstwhile Baroda State ) founded the university in 1949 on the wishes of his grandfather, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III ( 1863 – 1939 ), and settled the " Sir Sayajirao Diamond Jubilee and Memorial Trust " which exists to date and caters to the education and other needs of the people of the former Baroda State.

Sometime after 1908, Jones organized the Texas Trust Company.

* Cleveland Trust Company, Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908

* Cleveland Trust Company headquarters building 1908

Rivers to accompany him on the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1908.

On 21 September 1908, Andrew Carnegie expanded the concept with the establishment of the British Carnegie Hero Fund Trust, based in Dunfermline, Scotland.

The interior was virtually gutted in 1825, and restored in 1921 – 25 by Forbes and Tate for A. A. Lyle having passed to the National Trust in 1908.