Edison Sentence Examples

The Edison Telephone Company of London was formed.

He was for five years a clerk in the office of an Irish land-agent, but came to London with his family in 1876, and in 1879 was, according to his own account in the preface to The Irrational Knot, in the offices of the Edison telephone company.

Both the Bell and the Edison Companies opened negotiations with the Post Office for the sale of their patents to the government, but without success.

A telephone transmitter and a receiver on a novel plan were patented in July 1877 by Edison, shortly after the introduction of Bell's instruments.

He was inspired by Edison's invention of sound recording and Alexander Graham Bell's development of wax cylinders.

Did you know that before Edison created the light bulb, people slept for an average of ten hours a night?

Many creative individuals have used lucid dreaming as way to experiment and come up with inventions, including great inventors like Thomas Edison who was known to take naps as he worked on inventions.

Experiments very similar to these of Edison were made by Elisha Gray of Boston, Mass., and described by him in papers communicated to the American Electrical Society in 1875 and 1878.

In these experiments the electric current passed through the fingers of the operator's hand, which thus took the place of the spring in Edison's apparatus.

Edison, the last-named inventor elaborating a type of meter which he employed in connexion with his system of electric lighting in its early days.

Edison in the United States, were engaged in struggling with the difficulties of producing a suitable carbon incandescence electric lamp. Edison constructed in 1879 a successful lamp of this type consisting of a vessel wholly of glass containing a carbon filament made by carbonizing paper or some other carbonizable material, the vessel being exhausted and the current led into the filament through platinum wires.

Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 invented the speaking telephone, and Edison and Elisha Gray in the United States followed almost immediately with other telephonic inventions for electrically transmitting speech.

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Music machine American Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, and made a recording of the nursery rhyme " Mary had a little lamb.

Edison develops tin foil cylinder phonograph; files patent for it on December 24 which is awarded on February 19, 1878.

Click on picture to enlarge l Edison commissions 600 tin-foil phonographs from several workshops to circulate for demonstration purposes.

It has sometimes been claimed that Edison's proposed elevated plates anticipated the subsequent invention by Marconi of the aerial wire or antenna, but it is particularly to be noticed that Edison employed no spark gap or means for creating electrical high frequency oscillations in these wires.

Now it had been previously shown by Edison that, when a current was made to pass through an arrangement like that just described, the friction between the paper and the spring was greatly diminished.

The Edison Company announced its intention to start telephone business in London, and the Postmaster-General instituted proceedings against the company for infringement of his monopoly rights under the Telegraph Act 1869.

Edison is partnered with leading academic centers and foundations to develop first-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of these diseases.

Seven years later in 1885, Tiffany worked with Thomas Edison on decorative lighting and stage lighting for the Lyceum Theater in New York City, the first theater to feature electric lights.

Pele was born Edison Arantes do Nascimento, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil.

Edison offers up a way to create a long dress from a dollar bill; shorten it by adding pleats to the center.

Save for their 27"x 41" size (a standard that was set by no less than Thomas Edison), vintage movie posters are a far cry from the displays that adorn modern cineplexes.

Would you be surprised to learn tattoo machines are the creation of Thomas Edison?

The movie and series follow the exploits of crusading investigative reporter Edison Carter (also Matt Frewer), in a future very similar to today.

The network bosses would love to rein him in and exploit him, but there's no controlling the digital and uncatchable Max, who allies with Edison Carter when it suits him.

And I'm just starting my fourth YA, which is set in the same world as the first trilogy with new characters and a new Edison Group experiment.

The telephone used was Edison's chalk cylinder or electromotograph type of telephone.

There is no evidence that this plan of Edison's was practically operative as a system of telegraphy.

The first to attain practical success was Edison, and his method with some modifications is still the one in most general use.

A cylinder of chalk was used in some of Edison's later experiments with this receiver.

Edison's telephone patent was granted for the United Kingdom.

The Edison electric meter, like those of Sprague and Lane-Fox, was based upon the principle that when an electric current flows through an electrolyte, such as sulphate of copper or sulphate of zinc, the electrodes being plates of copper or zinc, metal is dissolved off one plate (the anode) and deposited on the other plate (the cathode).

To prevent temperature from affecting the shunt ratio, Edison joined in series with the electrolytic cell a copper coil the resistance of which increased with a rise of temperature by the same amount that the electrolyte decreased.

Edison in 1878 again attacked the problem of producing light by the incandescence of platinum.

Edison, moreover, as well as Lane-Fox, had realized the idea of a public electric supply station, and the former proceeded to establish in Pearl Street, New York, in 1881, the first public electric supply station.

Edison, with copious ingenuity, devised electric meters, electric mains, lamp fittings and generators complete for the purpose.

Thomas Edison created the first phonograph and record in 1877.

There were six working fireplaces and steam heat, with pipes and fittings for both gas and electric (Hornibrook was also a vice president at Edison Electric).

Almost simultaneously with Berliner, Edison conceived the idea of using a variable resistance transmitter.