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Aimé Argand

The invention of the lamp did not consist, then, of only one invention, but rather of the improvement and development of a complete system of parts all working together, not unlike Edison's invention of the electrical lighting system that was to again revolutionize lighting over a century later.

Anne Azéma

Ms. Azéma is a founding member of the Camerata Mediterranea, touring with them internationally and appearing on all of their CDs (Edison Prize) She has also been prominent in many of the Boston Camerata's American music projects, taking the role of Mother Ann Lee of the Shakers in the dance-and-music theater work "Borrowed Light" (premiered in 2004) by Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Camerata director Joel Cohen.

Barringer Hill

Because of its economic potential as a material for light filaments, both Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse attempted to obtain the hill, with the Piedmont Mining Company, which was owned by Edison, winning out in 1889.

Benno Schmidt

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., former president of Yale University, currently associated with Edison Schools

Caroline, No

The sounds that were lifted for the end of the Pet Sounds album were that of Train #58, "The Owl", speeding through at 70 mph through Edison, California.

Christopher Whittle

Chris Whittle, American entrepreneur, best known for founding Edison Schools, Inc.

Commonwealth Edison

In January 2007, the Chicago Tribune reported that Commonwealth Edison was behind Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE), an organization that had been arguing against a proposed statewide freeze in electricity rates.

Edison Electric Institute

The Edison Electric Institute is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies.

Edison Giménez

Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer that currently plays for Colombian Primera A side Itagüí as striker.

Edison Maldonado

Edison Néstor Maldonado (born 7 June 1972 in Quito) is a retired Ecuadorian football forward.

Édison Méndez

Édison Vicente Méndez Méndez (born March 16, 1979 in Ibarra) is an Ecuadorian football attacking midfielder who plays for Santa Fe in Colombia and the Ecuadorian national team.

Edison Studios

However, new restorations and screenings of Edison films in recent years contradict Everson's statement; indeed Everson's citing The Land Beyond the Sunset points out creativity at Edison beyond Porter and Collins as it was directed by Harold M. Shaw (1877–1926), who later went on to a successful career directing in England, South Africa, and Lithuania before returning to the US in 1922.

Edison Volta Prize

Edison Volta Prize is awarded biannually by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Edison, New Jersey natural gas explosion

On March 23, 1994, late night syndicated radio host Art Bell interviewed Neal Chase, who had predicted the nuking of New York City for that exact day.

Edison, Washington

Originally, Edison had its own high school, but by the late 1940s, Edison had partnered with nearby Burlington to create the Burlington-Edison School District, including a new high school called Burlington-Edison High School.

Emil Norlander

In the 1910s and 1920s Emil Norlander was introduced to Swedish-American audiences through recordings on the Columbia, Edison and Victor labels.

Film Freak

Although no explanation for his survival has yet been offered, Film Freak appeared later, in Catwoman #54, as part of the One Year Later storyline, going by the alias "Edison".

Fred Ott's Sneeze

Fred Ott's Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) is an 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott.

Gavin Volure

In the first scene, Jack Donaghy, in a voice over, talks about the Edison Terrace—located in the rooftop gardens of the General Electric Building.

George Charles Haité

As president he fashioned his own medal shaped like a painter's palette and staged a then-novel "Phonograph Evening" where the members recorded their voices onto an Edison wax Phonograph cylinder.

Harry Edison

According to the Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, Edison in the 1960s and 1970s continued to work in many orchestras on television shows, including Hollywood Palace and The Leslie Uggams Show, specials with Frank Sinatra; prominently featured on the sound track and in the sound track album of the film, Lady Sings the Blues.

Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and member of the Count Basie Orchestra.

Harry Ward Leonard

In 1896, Leonard organized and became president of Ward Leonard Electric as an Edison company in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Hometown, My Town

Arnold Eidus, Julius Held, Max Hollander, Harry Lookofsky (#4-6), Harry Edison (#4-6, Leo Kruczek, Tosha Samoroff, H. Urbont, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter, David Nadien (#2), Fred Buldrini (#2) - violin

Jesús Selgas Cepero

In 1982, along with two other Cuban artists, he exhibited at the show Three Cuban Painters at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey.

John H. Leims

After high school, he attended Northwestern University for two and a half years, and worked part-time at the Commonwealth Edison Company.

Joseph Samuels

After this he went on to record for several other companies, beginning with Emerson, Grey Gull, and Arto in 1920, continuing with Edison in 1921 and with Gennett, Federal, and Banner in 1922.

Kinetoscope

During the first week of January 1894, a five-second film starring an Edison technician was shot at the Black Maria; Fred Ott's Sneeze, as it is now widely known, was made expressly to produce a sequence of images for an article in Harper's magazine.

Long Tall Weekend

The next year, "Rat Patrol," "Token Back to Brooklyn," "Reprehensible," "Certain People I Could Name" and "They Got Lost" appeared on the rarities compilation album They Got Lost, and "The Edison Museum" appeared on No!.

Marnie McPhail

Marnie McPhail (born July 4, 1966) is an American Actress and voice artist who is known for playing Maria Wong in Braceface, Annie Edison in The Edison Twins, and Peaches in JoJo's Circus.

Marshalltown, Nova Scotia

Marshalltown was the birthplace of Samuel Edison, father of Thomas Edison (1847-1931), and it was also the home of folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) from 1938 until her death.

Neighborhoods of Kalamazoo

Four of the city's parks are located in the Edison neighborhood, including the Mayor's Riverfront Park, where the Kalamazoo Kings and Kalamazoo Kingdom sports teams play.

News 12 Networks

Launched in 1996, News 12 New Jersey, in addition to its main newsroom in Edison, also has regional newsrooms in Newark, Trenton, Madison, Oakland and Wall Township.

Nickel–iron battery

Edison's batteries were made from about 1903 to 1972 by the Edison Storage Battery Company in East Orange, NJ.

Pantograph

This was employed by Edison and Columbia in 1898, and was used until about January 1902 (Columbia brown waxes after this were molded).

Edison, Bettini, Leon Douglass and others solved this problem (partly) by mechanically linking a cutting stylus and a playback stylus together and copying the "hill-and-dale" grooves of the cylinder mechanically.

Quadruplex

Quadruplex telegraph, an improvement on the electrical telegraph patented in 1874 by Thomas Edison

Russell Hunting

Hunting traveled to England in 1898, and became recording director of Edison Bell Records.

Simeon Arthur Huston

Their first child was Wilber B. Huston, who won the 1929 Edison scholarship contest

The Edison Twins

It starred Andrew Sabiston and Marnie McPhail as fraternal twins Tom and Annie Edison, Sunny Besen Thrasher as their mischievous little brother Paul, and Milan Cheylov as their bumbling friend Lance Howard.

Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace

Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace is the historic house in which the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Thomson-Houston later merged with the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, to form the General Electric Company in 1892, with plants in Lynn and Schenectady, both of which remain to this day as the two original GE factories.

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

2004: The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River; Nancy Coyne, chief executive of the theater advertising agency Serino Coyne; restaurateurs Frances and Harry Edelstein of Cafe Edison and Vincent Sardi, Jr. of Sardi's; photographer Martha Swope.

Westlock, Alberta

Edson, Alberta already existed, so the site was called Edison by its Irish-Canadian founders, after the American inventor Thomas Edison.

White-rumped Shama

This recording was made in 1889 from a captive individual using an Edison wax cylinder by Ludwig Koch in Germany.

Willard Harrell

He went to Edison High School, Stockton, California, in the late 1960s and early 1970s and played under its legendary coach, Charlie Washington.

Yoshiro Okabe

Edison liked him very much, and brought him camping with Henry Ford and Harvey Samuel Firestone.


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