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...e victim.<ref>Randall E. Stross, The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, Crown/Archetype - 2007, page 171-173</ref>{{sfnp ...ray AC as a public menace and the "executioners' current".<ref>Mark Essig, Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, Bloomsbury Publishing U ...

...amples of technology brokering can be found as early as 1876 with [[Thomas Edison]] in his [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]] laboratory. In six years, th Companies such as [[IDEO]] have their processes compared to Edison's operations of the Menlo Park laboratory. Since IDEO's founding in 1978, i ...

...re engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions. For instance, [[Thomas Edison]] wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878: ...S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J., cited in {{cite book |first= Thomas Parke |last=Hughes |title= American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Tec ...

...ght-bulb.html | access-date = 2007-05-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | first = Thomas | last = Greenslade | title = The Voltaic Pile | publisher = [[Kenyon Colle ...for 59 customers.<ref>{{cite news | first=Jasmin | last=Williams | title = Edison Lights The City | publisher =[[New York Post]] | url = http://www.nypost.co ...

[[File:Edison light bulb with plate.jpg|thumb|One of the bulbs with which Edison discovered thermionic emission. It consists of an evacuated glass light bul ...ionic emission''' (also known as '''thermal electron emission''' or the '''Edison effect''') is the liberation of [[electron]]s from an [[electrode]] by virt ...

In 1880 this assumption was shown to be false by either [[Thomas Edison|Edison]] or his colleague [[Francis Robbins Upton]], who realized that maximum eff ...

| image1 = Thomas Edison c1882.jpg | caption1 = American inventor and businessman [[Thomas Edison]] established the first investor-owned electric utility in 1882, basing its ...

...gher current, requiring thick copper cables for transmission. In practice, Edison's DC generating plants needed to be within about {{convert|1.5|mi|km}} of t ...rg/details/behindheadlinesa00garr/page/107 107]|isbn=9780811708173}}</ref> Edison's propaganda campaign was short-lived, with his company switching over to A ...

|first_produced={{start date and age|1879||}} by [[Joseph Swan]] and [[Thomas Edison]] (first demo of incandescent bulb) ...name="Freebert">{{cite book |last=Freebert |first=Ernest |title=The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America |date=2014 |publisher=P ...

...h a commercially viable stage. In 1878, in the [[United States]], [[Thomas Edison]] developed and sold a commercially viable replacement for gas lighting and ...hod of supply was direct current (DC). Whilst the Godalming and the 1882 [[Edison Electric Light Station|Holborn Viaduct Scheme]] closed after a few years th ...

...nts for limited-run distribution. The duplicator was pioneered by [[Thomas Edison]] and [[David Gestetner]], with [[Gestetner]] dominating the market up unti ...graph-Monticello Cville VA.jpg|thumb|200px|One of the polygraphs used by [[Thomas Jefferson]], a portable version]] ...

...[[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Evangelista Torricelli]], [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Albert Einstein]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grissom, Fred. | ...dison was one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding [[List of Edison patents|1,093 U.S. patents in his name]].]] ...

...ause low milk yield, or even [[mastitis]] (inflammation of the udder).<ref>Thomas J. Divers, Simon Francis Peek (ed),''Rebhun's diseases of dairy cattle'', E ..., and the circuits and neutral together are sometimes referred to as an '''Edison circuit'''. ...

...ntral Station Dynamos and Engine.jpg|thumb|Dynamos and engine installed at Edison General Electric Company, New York 1895]] ...entions using electricity, with the major contributors being [[Thomas Alva Edison]] and [[Nikola Tesla]]. Previously the only way to produce electricity was ...

....edu/patents/&nbsp;— U.S. Patent Office number 438305 "Fuse Block" (.pdf)] Edison writes, "The passage of an abnormal electric current fuses the safety-catch ...screwing-in a tamper-proof adapter. This adapter screws into the existing Edison fuse holder, and has a smaller diameter threaded hole to accept the designa ...

...for 59 customers.<ref>{{cite news | first=Jasmin | last=Williams | title = Edison Lights The City | newspaper = New York Post | url = http://www.nypost.com/s ...ouse would begin installing AC transformer systems in competition with the Edison Company later that year. In 1888, Westinghouse licensed [[Nikola Tesla]]'s ...

The world's first large scale central plant—[[Thomas Edison]]'s [[Holborn Viaduct power station|steam powered station at Holborn Viaduc ...the same 110&nbsp;V customer utilization voltage that Edison used. In 1883 Edison patented a [[Split-phase electric power|three–wire]] distribution system to ...

...Collections {{!}} Library of Congress |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/about-this-collection/ |access ...essaging application, the Speech Filing System, was developed at the [[IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] in 1973 under the leadership of [[Stephen Boies ...

*[[Incandescent light bulb]]: Invented by [[Thomas Edison]], this let individuals switch from oil powered lighting to electrical powe ...

...Blunt, Shannon D.; Perrins, Erik Samuel, 1973-|isbn=9781785613579|location=Edison|oclc=1079815876|last1 = Blunt|first1 = Shannon D.|last2 = Perrins|first2 = ...st3=Kordik|first3=Andrew|last4=Kendo|first4=Thomas|last5=Corigliano|first5=Thomas|s2cid=54451278}}</ref> where FM and [[continuous phase modulation]] (CPM) a ...