The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns.

There is also evidence that in 1888 he shared with Thomas Edison some thoughts on combining a new projection system he had invented—the zoopraxiscope—with Edison’s phonograph.

That was the day that the electric lighting system devised by Thomas Edison was put on public display at his company’s workshop complex at Menlo Park.