The Edison

MEETINGS of the Edison Electric Institute, the trade association for the American power utilities, do not normally make waves.

The author of the Edison catalog might have been exaggerating a bit in order to increase interest in the films.

Eventually, the Edison Company developed its own projector, known as the Projectoscope, and stopped marketing the Vitascope.

He was an employee of the Edison Company. He stayed on as an electrician.

1892 - The General Electric Company is formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company.

One of the Edison Manufacturing Company's earliest films shows two cats fighting in a boxing ring.

The Edison films were among the first to market disaster and devastation to a mass audience.

Residential lighting is dominated by the Edison fixture, into which occupants screw incandescent bulbs or compact fluorescent lamps.

In 1917, when the U. S. became involved in World War I, the Edison Company created a special model of the phonograph for the U. S. Army.

Take a look at the "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" and see how far film has come since 1894.

Do you know what the kids in the photo are doing? They are holding busts of Thomas Edison for a performance in the Edison Pageant of Light.

As part of energy-saving legislation three years ago, Congress mandated a phaseout of the Edison incandescent light bulb beginning in 2012.

He formed the Edison Portland Cement Co. in 1899, and made everything from cabinets (for phonographs) to pianos and houses.

Paris Expo, at the Edison invented produced by the tungsten filament incandescent lamp.

The futility of the authorities' attempts to police this area was illustrated by the Edison Chen scandal that broke in early 2008.

But for LEDs to replace the Edison bulb, the shape of light they emit has to be round.

The Edison Telephone Company was swallowed by the Bell Telephone Company.

Thus, out of the Edison Electric!

This discovery was patented as the "Edison effect" .

The voice of the Edison gramophone was first heard by visitors in World Expo.

The technologies of burning stuff to produce light make the Edison bulb seem a model of efficiency.

The Edison Telephone Companywas presently swallowed by the BellTelephone Company.

In 1878, Edison established the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company to sell the new machine.

a. He is the Edison of today.

George Bernard Shaw, 23, quits his job at the Edison Telephone Company in order to write. In 1925, Shaw won the Nobel Prize for literature.

In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as " pleasant" , "sad" , "lively" .