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.

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.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

He took up filmmaking in 1896, and after making imitations of other films from Edison, Lumière, and Robert Paul, he made Escamotage d ' un dame chez Robert-Houdin ( The Vanishing Lady ).

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.

Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.

William Preece, a British scientist took back with him several of the Edison Effect bulbs, and presented a paper on them in 1885, where he referred to thermionic emission as the " Edison Effect.

In 1994, he took time off from professional acting and attended Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, and later Stanford University to study English and theater.

Eager for good publicity, Edison took Blackton out to his " Black Maria ", the special cabin he used to do his filming, and created a film on the spot of Blackton doing a lightning portrait of Edison.

When Arthur was six years old, the family moved to Riverside, Illinois, as his father took a job as managing engineer with Commonwealth Edison Company.

He took the stage as one of the vaudeville acts of the Edison Theater in New Westminster.

Items of interest include, Robert Harbin ’ s original Zig Zag lady illusion, Chung Ling Soo's robes, rifles used for the ‘ Bullet Catch ’ by Maurice Fogel in the 1940s, an original Sooty with associated Harry Corbett apparatus, sets of props used by television magicians David Nixon and Tommy Cooper, items and a sound recording of Harry Houdini taken from an Edison cylinder, and a set of cups and balls used by HRH The Prince of Wales when he took his Magic Circle exam in 1975.

They then formed the Chicago Edison Company, which took over all of Western Edison's business on July 2, 1887.

When The Walt Disney Company took control of the team in, it extensively renovated Anaheim Stadium, which was then renamed Edison International Field of Anaheim.

Thomas Alva Edison took the next step in improving the telephone with his invention in 1878 of the carbon grain " transmitter " ( microphone ) that provided a strong voice signal on the transmitting circuit that made long-distance calls practical.

Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works, such as those by Esquivel, Henry Mancini, and Martin Denny.

Close up of the mechanism of an Edison Amberola, manufactured circa 1915

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.

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan.

Edison was active in business right up to the end.

" 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.

Life magazine ( USA ), in a special double issue in 1997, placed Edison first in the list of the " 100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years ", noting that the light bulb he promoted " lit up the world ".

She later wakes up in hospital and the man who saved her is revealed to be the local pediatrician, Steve Edison ( Matthew McConaughey ).

Edison, along with assistant W. K. L. Dickson, followed that up with the Kinetophone, which combined the Kinetoscope with Edison's cylinder phonograph.

She grew up in Edison, New Jersey, where she graduated from Edison High School in 1964.

* 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.

Before Cros had a chance to follow up on this idea or attempt to construct a working model, Thomas Alva Edison introduced his first working phonograph in the USA.

Between December 2, 2009 and December 6, 2009, Moreno Valley, along with Edison lit up the " M " in celebration of the city's 25th anniversary.

Edison Lake ( the proper name of Belleville Lake ) was created by damming up the Huron River in two places.

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.

It was in his Menlo Park ( N. J .) Laboratory that Thomas Edison came up with the phonograph and a commercially viable incandescent light bulb filament.

McDonnell was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and grew up in Edison, New Jersey.

Edison followed up his improvement of the light bulb with the development of electrical generating systems.

He used an Edison cylinder phonograph that he set up near the stage to capture short, one to five minute recordings of the soloists, chorus and orchestra during performances.

Close up of the mechanism of an Edison Amberola, manufactured circa 1915

In the 2004 presidential election, a new organization called National Election Pool was set up by the same organizations, utilizing consultants Edison / Mitofsky for exit polling and Associated Press for official returns.