Early films by Edison ( whose company invented a motion camera and projector ) and others were short films that were one long, static, locked-down shot.

After this date, the Edison company developed its own form of projector, as did various other inventors.

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.

Dickson after he left the Edison company in 1895.

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.

width films being made by the Edison company and others in France and the UK.

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.

Blair's company supplied film to Edison for five years.

* Charles Edison ( 1890 – 1969 ), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey.

George Westinghouse's company bought Philip Diehl's competing induction lamp patent rights ( 1882 ) for $ 25, 000, forcing the holders of the Edison patent to charge a more reasonable rate for the use of the Edison patent rights and lowering the price of the electric lamp.

At the same time the French company Kinétoscope Edison Michel et Alexis Werner bought these machines for the market in France.

On September 13 2001, the idea was presented to executives of Consolidated Edison, the electric utility company serving New York City, by John Englehart, then president of the brand innovation firm Arnell Group Architects John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi of PROUN Space Studio distributed their " Project for the Immediate Reconstruction of Manhattan's Skyline ".

* An Edison company film of the Asia pavilion, at the Library of Congress

Today, the plant is operated by Detroit Edison but is entirely owned by parent company DTE Energy.

The Government Affairs Vice President confirmed that the Metropolitan Edison Company, which operated the company, had shortly before received a warning from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) that Babcock and Wilcox reactor valves were vulnerable to failure under certain conditions.

That company merged with Edison Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, forming General Electric in 1892, with the two original GE plants being in Lynn and Schenectady.

Majesco Entertainment, a video game company, has its corporate headquarters in Edison.

The United States headquarters of the international company Zylog Systems is located in Edison.

His newly established company ( which by merger eventually became the Edison and Swan United Company ) used Swan's cellulose filaments in their bulbs.

Edison continued using bamboo filaments until the 1892 merger that created Edison General Electric, and that company then shifted to cellulose.

During this period of his life, Buster joined the swimming pool company Cascade Industries of Talmadge Road, Edison, New Jersey.

Charles became president of his father's company Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1927, and ran it until it was sold in 1957, when it merged with the McGraw Electric Company to form the McGraw-Edison Electric Company.

Edison was board chairman of the merged company until he retired in 1961.

* Consolidated Edison, also Con Edison

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

Spacey also appeared in Edison, co-starring Morgan Freeman and Justin Timberlake ; Edison received a direct-to-video release on July 18, 2006.

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.

Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents.

She was also the pseudo-love-interest of Edison Carter, but that subplot was not explored fully on the show before it was cancelled.

Hermann also played back vowel recordings made with the Edison phonograph at different speeds in order to test Willis ' and Wheatstone's theories of vowel production.

Edison's early patents show that he also considered the idea that sound could be recorded as a spiral onto a disc, but Edison concentrated his efforts on cylinders, since the groove on the outside of a rotating cylinder provides a constant velocity to the stylus in the groove, which Edison considered more " scientifically correct ".

( French composer Charles Gounod was also a guest at this reception, and he and Edison discussed the prospect of recording a performance of Gounod's opera Faust, but a collaboration never materialized.

( This was not the first attempt at a commercial long play record format, as Edison Records had marketed a microgroove vertically recorded disc with 20 minutes playing time per side the previous decade ; the Edison long-playing records were also a commercial failure.

Edison was also granted a patent for the motion picture camera or " Kinetograph ".

" She also said that during one of his periodic " great scientific adventures ", Edison would be up at 7: 00, have breakfast at 8: 00, and be rarely home for lunch or dinner, implying that he continued to have all three.

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

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 ).

Business icons Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone also lent their cachet to the campaign.

* Montez is also the inspiration for Lola Montero in Edison Marshall's novel Infinite Woman.

During this time he also worked on other Edison Company productions including Sam Loyd's The Puzzling Billboard and Nippy's Nightmare ( both 1917 ), which were the first stop-motion films to combine live actors with stop motion models.

* Edison also made a parody of The Great Train Robbery ( The Little Train Robbery ) ( 1905 ) with an all-child cast in which a larger gang of bandits holds up a mini train and steal their dolls and candy.