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.

* 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

Bell had married Hubbard's daughter Mabel in 1879 while Hubbard was president of the Edison Speaking Phonograph Co., and his organization, which had purchased the Edison patent, was financially troubled because people did not want to buy a machine which seldom worked well and proved difficult for the average person to operate.

In 1877 – 78, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s.

Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering work on the telephone.

The Bell and Edison patents, however, were forensically victorious and commercially decisive.

The Edison patents kept the Bell monopoly viable into the 20th century, by which time the network was more important than the instrument.

* January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

In their Washington, D. C experiment, Bell and Tainter succeeded in communicating clearly over a distance of some 213 meters ( about 700 ft .), using plain sunlight as their light source, practical electrical lighting having only just been invented by Edison.

He was to write on things like the Wright brothers and their first aeroplane, Thomas Edison and his electric light bulb invention, Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, and Samuel F. B. Morse's invention of the telegraph.

Decca also bought out the Melotone and Edison Bell record companies.

Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison invented the telephone and phonograph in 1876 and 1877 respectively, and the American Library Association was founded in Philadelphia.

The 19th century was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

*" Daisy Bell "-Edward M. Favor, Edison Phonograph Company

The 17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham | Bell Edison Telephone Building, Birmingham, England.

The Oriental Telephone Company " was established on January 25, 1881, as the result of an agreement between Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Oriental Bell Telephone Company of New York and the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company, Ltd.

Science was founded by New York journalist John Michaels in 1880 with financial support from Thomas Edison and later from Alexander Graham Bell.

Its records were manufactured by the Edison Bell Record Works, London.

She married production designer Richard Bell in November 2001 and gave birth to her first child, a son, Zachary Edison Bell, in early 2004.

Interpreting invention as a cognitive process: the case of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and the telephone.

474, 230, 474, 231 and 474, 232 ) were awarded to Edison in 1892 over the competing claims of Alexander Graham Bell, Emile Berliner, Elisha Gray, A E Dolbear, J W McDonagh, G B Richmond, W L W Voeker, J H Irwin and Francis Blake Jr. Edison's carbon granules transmitter and Bell's electromagnetic receiver were used, with improvements, by the Bell system for many decades thereafter ( Josephson, p 146 ).

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

The English physicist John Ambrose Fleming worked as an engineering consultant for firms including Edison Telephone and the Marconi Company.

* 2 August 1879: The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd, registered.

In 1879, he went to London to supervise technical operations of the Edison Telephone Company of Great Britain, but he was taken ill there and returned to Menlo Park.

Using superior equipment designed by Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray, Western Union was in a competitive shoot-out with local licensee of the National Bell Telephone Company in Boston.

In 1882, the Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company was established in both Lisbon and Porto, to explore the respective telephone service concessions.

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.

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

The companies concerned were Pathé, Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig, Essanay, Kalem, and the Kleine Optical Company, a major importer of European films.

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.

In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company.

After leaving the University of Nottingham in 1882, Fleming took up the post of " Electrician " to the Edison Electrical Light Company, advising on lighting systems and the new Ferranti alternating current systems.

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.

* 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

Phonograph cabinet built with Edison Portland Cement Company | Edison cement, 1912.

Not long later Lippincott purchased the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company.

He then created the North American Phonograph Company to consolidate the national sales rights of both the Graphophone and the Edison Speaking Phonograph.

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.

The " Edison Trust ", as it was nicknamed, was made up of Edison, Biograph, Essanay Studios, Kalem Company, George Kleine Productions, Lubin Studios, Georges Méliès, Pathé, Selig Studios, and Vitagraph Studios, and dominated distribution through the General Film Company.

* 1940 – New York City's " Mad Bomber " George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

** An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building ( only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended ).

Consolidated Edison proposed building a giant hydro-electric plant on the river at Storm King Mountain near Cornwall.

GSU's Edison Plaza headquarters is still the tallest building in Beaumont ( as of 2011 ).

VoIP provider Vonage Holdings, Inc., moved its world headquarters from Edison to Holmdel in November 2005, occupying the building that formerly housed Prudential Property Casualty & Insurance.

In 1927 the building on 14th Street was sold, to make way for the new tower being added to the Consolidated Edison Company Building.

The building was situated above a Consolidated Edison ( Con Ed ) power substation, which imposed unique structural design constraints.

The " U-62 " building was constructed around KGTO 1050's AM radio transmitter site ( 5400 West Edison Street ); the real KGTO studios had been moved elsewhere in 1975.

The 30 person start-up team worked out of an old testing facility building located in an industrial part of Edison.

Edison Park Saving Bank building across from the Metra Station

The Edison building, built by Falconbridge Ltd. in 1969, here photographed in 1985

The building was originally a Consolidated Edison power plant ; but after a period of vacancy, it was used as a sound stage for the television game show Let's Make a Deal.

The alkaline dry battery using the zinc / manganese dioxide chemistry was invented by Canadian engineer Lewis Urry in the 1950s while working for Union Carbide's Eveready Battery division in Cleveland, OH, building on earlier work by Edison.

KYW's first home was the roof of the Edison Company building at 72 West Adams Street in Chicago, and it went on the air November 11, 1921.

* Consolidated Edison Company Building – Manhattan, New York City, 1915 – building only, not the tower

The earliest predecessor of Commonwealth Edison was the Isolated Lighting Company, established in early 1881 by George H. Bliss as a subsidiary of Thomas Edison's company to sell small Edison-patented generators and lighting systems, each serving one building or several nearby buildings.

In addition, PSEG is building four solar farms in Edison, Hamilton, Linden, and Trenton.

The Edison " dynamo " No: 24 is still located in the building.

The company grew and in 1979 moved its headquarters into the Edison Plaza office tower, which is still the tallest building in Beaumont.

When Edison built a glass-enclosed rooftop movie studio in New York City, the Black Maria was closed in January 1901 due to the purchase of a new studio in New York, and Edison demolished the building in 1903.

The " Fachhochschule Neu-Ulm " is located in the former US-base " Wiley Barracks ", expanded into two floors of the newly build " Edison Center " and will be transferred into a new, bigger building which is currently build on the former US-base area, in summer 2008.

The township of Edison plans to renovate the building.

This may have been a financial decision on the part of the building owners ; at the time these towers were constructed, local electric utility Commonwealth Edison provided expensive building transformers at little or no charge provided the buildings were made all-electric.