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	Edison Illuminating Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Edison Illuminating Company was established by Thomas Edison on December 17, 1880, to construct electrical generating stations, initially in New York City.
		The company was the prototype for other local illuminating companies that were established in the United States during the 1880s:
		The Edison Illuminating Company was purchased by Consolidated Gas some time between 1899 and 1901, subsequently the company became known as Consolidated Edison, a name which it has kept since 1936.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edison_Illuminating_Company (228 words)

	Con Edison: A Brief History of Con Edison - electricity
		The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated on December 17, 1880, to develop and install a central generating station.
		Edison's system would consist of the large central power plant with its generators (called dynamos); voltage regulating devices; copper wires connecting the plant to other buildings; the wiring, switches, and fixtures in the interiors of those buildings; and the light bulbs themselves.
		Across the East River, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn was incorporated in 1887 and was soon competing with Kings County Electric Light.
	www.coned.com /history/electricity.asp (1244 words)

	Thomas Alva Edison
		Edison now forged one of the sweetest deals in history when he co-opted Hopkins 3-wire technology for himself and the Edison Illuminating Light Corporation, and combined it with the latest in feeder and transformer technology....
		First, if Edison had not benefited from the expertise of this brilliant young engineer/mathematician at the time he was dealing with the Hopkins challenge, he would have probably not been the first to transcend the empirical stage of profit-oriented centralized electrical power on a global scale....
		When Edison's son, Charles, made a commemorative visit to Brockton in 1958, Charles Edison in Brockton he was asked if the persistent local "legend" that his father never actually intended to use overhead wiring in Brockton in the first place was true.
	www.thomasedison.com /brockton.htm (10408 words)

	Location Text and List of Documents - The Edison Papers
		Included is material relating to the establishment and operation of the company and the construction of the first Boston central station.
		At the core of the collection are the letters exchanged between company treasurer F. Hastings in New York and superintendent A. Moore, Jr., in Boston, along with the letters between Hastings and Moore's successor, William J. Hammer.
		Material relating to the company's centennial, specifically a corporate history, brochures and a calendar, were presented along with the collection.
	edison.rutgers.edu /NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?gloc=CC2 (317 words)

	fordlegacy
		Surprisingly, Edison, who usually advocated electric vehicles, told Ford that with his gasoline engine he was headed in the right direction.
		The Detroit Automobile Company was officially dissolved in January 1901.
		While Henry was with the Detroit Automobile Company, he received a letter from his friend Oliver Barthel, an attorney and draftsman, warning of the Selden patent, a legality with which Henry Ford would soon have to contend.
	www.hfha.org /birthformoco.htm (898 words)

	Edison Illuminating Company of St. Louis 1894
		The company was an early licensee of Edison's technology to generate electricity in St. Louis.
		It was acquired by the Union Electric Company in 1903.
		1847 Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, to Samuel and Nancy Elliott Edison.
	www.scripophily.net /edilcomstoc1.html (780 words)

	TermPapers-TermPapers.com - Henry Ford
		Company plans seemed to be in place for a long, predictable future and Ford was free to embark on a great new project: the design and construction of the world's largest and most efficient automobile factory at River Rouge, near Detroit.
		Fortunately, Edsel had been quietly marshaling sketches from the company's designers, and he was ready and able to work with his father on producing plans for the new car, called the Model A. It was a success from its launch in December 1927, and placed the company on sound footing again.
		The Ford Motor Company, having survived its own crisis in the twenties, was one of only forty-four U.S. automakers left in 1929, out of the hundreds that had entered the fray since the beginning of the century.
	www.termpapers-termpapers.com /dbs/c4/hal47.shtml (4244 words)

	Selection Of Alternating Current Apparatus For A Central Lighting System
		Gilbert was at the same time engaged in a similar inquiry with reference to proposed extensions of the Edison plant, and also with reference to the Sacramento plant, of which he has since taken charge.
		On the other hand, there are Edison companies supplementing their three-wire systems by an alternating distribution reaching beyond the three-wire limits, and this number is on the increase.
		To those companies, including my own, which will constitute the said increase, a full discussion of this subject will be of value.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles22/public-service-2.shtml (2972 words)

	TODAY in Energy History
		Following this, Consolidated Edison Company of New York constructed a $55 million plant at Indian Point, N.Y., and a $45 million plant in Grundy County, Ill., was built by Commonwealth Edison Company.
		June 4, 1825 - The first time natural gas was used for illumination was in Fredonia, N.Y. A pipeline was laid from a well to a residence where a reception was held for General Lafayette.
		September 3, 1931 - An experimental electric passenger train, designed by Thomas Alva Edison, was used on the Lackawanna Railroad between Hoboken and Montclair, N.J. September 4, 1882 - The first electric central station to supply light and power was the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York City.
	www.energy.ca.gov /m+pco/history.html (5460 words)

	Henry_Ford
		At a convention Ford was introduced to Edison as "the young fellow who's made a gas car." After discussing his ideas with the great inventor, Ford was glad to hear that Edison thought his ideas had merit.
		Deep at it!" The meeting with Thomas Edison gave Henry Ford fresh inspiration and his spirit was renewed by the famous inventor's words of encouragement.
		Even though the company was well pleased with his work and offered him the General Superintendent position, they asked him to mae a choich.
	www.homestead.com /caughtinaloop/Henry_Ford.html (824 words)

	NYART - Technology in the City Web Exhibit - Utilities
		The Edison Electric Illuminating Company opens a commercial electric generating station for incandescent lighting on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan.
		Consolidated Edison results from the merger of Edison Illuminating Company with Consolidated Gas, owned by John D. Rockefeller and William Whitney.
		Con Edison is the first firm in the United States to receive a license for construction of a commercial nuclear power plant.
	www.nycarchivists.org /exhibit/uttime.html (560 words)

	The Henry Ford: The Life of Henry Ford
		Henry Ford at the Edison Illuminating Co., 1895.
		Henry Ford and Thomas Edison laying the cornerstone of Henry Ford Museum, 1929.
		Ends eight years of employment with the Edison Illuminating Company to devote full attention to the many manufacture of automobiles.
	www.hfmgv.org /exhibits/hf/chrono.asp (421 words)

	Brief History of the FORD Motor Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1913, Ford Motor Company was producing half of all the automobiles in the United States.
		The Ford Motor Company was loosing several million dollars per month and was in poor condition to resume their prewar position in the marketplace.
		After finally leaving the Ford Motor Company to Henry Ford II, Henry Ford I lived with his wife Clara, at their "Fair Lane" estate in Dearborn until his death on April 7, 1947 at the age of 83.
	www.bullittarchive.com /9002.htm (2764 words)

	Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford
		The company’s Station A was one of Detroit’s first electric power plants.
		Henry Ford worked for Edison Illuminating in the 1890s, becoming chief engineer of Station A. He built his first car while he was employed there.
		Henry Ford built his first car – the “Quadricycle” – while he was employed at the Edison Illuminating Company.
	www.hfmgv.org /village/railroadjunction/stationa (107 words)

	Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit - 1905 ( Early Detroit Edison )
		This historic $10,000 Gold Bond was printed by the American Banknote Company in 1905 and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an bare brested maiden woman holding a light bulb.
		In 1886, the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit was established and served its first customers.
		Seven years later, Edison Illuminating and other electric companies in and around Detroit consolidated which later formed the Detroit Edison Company.
	www.scripophily.net /edilcom.html (550 words)

	Henry Ford
		Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, was born in Springwells Township, Wayne County, Mich., on July 30, 1863.
		In July, 1891, he was employed as an engineer by the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit.
		On August 19, 1899, he resigned from the Edison Illuminating Company and, with others, organized the Detroit Automobile Company.
	media.ford.com /print_doc.cfm?article_id=3404 (788 words)

	Edison Thomas A Thomas Alva 1847 1931 The Edison Archives, 1850-1947 (bulk:1876-1931) AIP International Catalog of ...
		Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Friends and associates.
		Most of the materials in the Edison Archives are in the public domain, but some items may not be.
		Reference card index at repository; a number of record groups comprising a portion of the total archives now have archival finding aids; an overview "Guide" to the Archives holdings is available in photocopy form.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/1751.html (500 words)

	Electricity - Some Basic Principles
		I took charge of the Detroit Edison property which was then The Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit, some thirty years ago.
		That company had then ten years of existence and it was still in the hands of the original promoters.
		You have taken the cream of the business and you have given a good account of yourselves." It was one of the lucky companies.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles22/public-service-24.shtml (816 words)

	Henry Ford
		Their company was founded in 1903 and was called the Ford Motor Company.
		He wouldn't give up his company because he found his son, Edsel, to be unloyal and didn't trust him so he held on to the company.
		The company was in good hands and was doing just as if Henry Ford I was running it when he died April of 1947 of natural causes at the age of 84.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/100/as/as.htm (692 words)

	Thomas Edison
		Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio in 1847.
		He was said to be a scientist and an inventor.
		Edison was issued 1,093 patents, more than any other inventor in history.
	www.kickingupdust.com /ThomasEdison.htm (547 words)

	Term-Papers.us - Henry Ford
		After joining the Edison Illuminating Company it was clear to him that he wanted to didicate his life to making industrial pursuits.
		Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, however he was one of the several automotive pioneers who helped this country become a nation of motorists.
		The Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer.
	www.term-papers.us /ts/ea/hal48.shtml (581 words)

	Thomas Edison Potent Years
		1884 Edison's first wife wife, Mary Stillwell, probably died of typhoid fever at the age of 29.
		1892 Edison General Electric Company merged with Thomson-Houston Company to become the General Electric Company.
		At this point, Edison sold his share of the electrical business.
	www.edison.me.uk /thomas-edison-potent-years.htm (391 words)

	Henry Ford Founded Ford Motor Company in 1903 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ford and Edison vacationed together, and in later years, they had summer homes nearby one another in Florida.) Ford soon began experimenting with gasoline-powered vehicles in his spare time.
		After America entered the war in 1917, the Ford Company became a leading producer of ambulances, tanks, airplanes, submarine chasers, and munitions.
		In his later years, Ford was criticized for his anti-Semitic views, for the private police force he employed to keep down labor unions, and for his autocratic style of management.
	www.businessgreats.com /business-greats-ford.shtml (373 words)

	Social Security Online History Pages
		This suit is brought by a shareholder of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, a Massachusetts corporation, to restrain the corporation from making the payments and deductions called for by the act, which is stated to be void under the Constitution of the United States.
		If the exactions shall ultimately be held void, the company will have parted with moneys which as a practical matter it will be impossible to recover.
		The ruling of the majority removes from the case the preliminary objection as to the nature of the remedy which we took of our own motion at the beginning of the argument.
	www.ssa.gov /history/supreme1.html (3413 words)

	Scripophily from Antique Networking
		This historic document was printed by the Columbia Financial...
		Edison International (Parent Company of Southern California Edison)
		Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit - 1905 (Early Detroit Edison)
	www.antiqnet.com /category,scripophily-496.html (159 words)

	Greenfield Village Memories - Edison Illuminating Company
		Greenfield Village’s Edison Illumination Company, built in Greenfield Village in 1944, is a partial reconstruction, one-quarter size, of Station A, the first of the Edison Illuminating Company’s early power plants in Detroit Station and one the first electric power plant in the city of Detroit.
		Coal-burning boilers on the first floor provided power to steam engines which were connected to dynamos on the floor
		Henry Ford began working at the Edison Illumination Company as a steam engineer eventually rising to chief engineer for this plant in 1893.
	www.wrenscottage.com /gvm/craft/illuminating.php (172 words)

	edison light bulbs
		The first time a Christmas tree was lit by electricity was in 1882, in the New York home of Edward H. Johnson.
		A colleague of Thomas Edison and vice-president of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company (later called General Electric), Johnson used a homemade string of 80 small electric light bulbs.
		Every year since 1985, provinces and territories are invited to simultaneously light their legislative buildings in a spectacular display that links Canada's capital cities.
	www.discount-light-bulbs.com /9975-edison-light-bulbs.html (486 words)

	Henry Ford
		Also in the year of 1914 I raised the minimum wage of my workers to five dollars a day for workers who were over the age of 22.
		While I was at Ford Motor Company I created the Model T. It's starting price was the same as all vehicles, 825 dollars.
		The Model T was old sold in the color fl and that began to bore people over time.
	www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/ryn/projects/inventors/ford/ford.html (742 words)

	twentiesphobia's Journal
		Soon the horseless carriage had evolved into the madly popular Model T. By 1903 Ford had earned enough money through his patens and was able to open his own Automobile Company, the Henry Ford Company (later known as Cadillac).
		Then Five years after the companies’ founding Ford had sold more then 30,000 of the Model T’s.
		Even though 30,000 was a very high number of cars in back then Ford wanted to find a way to produce more in a shorter time span.
	twentiesphobia.livejournal.com (2734 words)

	Generator Room Henry Ford Powerhouse Fair Lane Rouge River Thomas Edison University of Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Just in case the Rouge River should fail to provide enough energy due to flood or low water levels, a backup steam engine, long familiar to Mr.
		Ford from his days at Edison Illuminating, was installed
		Powerhouse workers remembered many times when Henry Ford would appear after dinner to tinker with the steam engine he was so familiar with.
	www.henryfordestate.org /generatorroom.html (276 words)

	Ford Model A Roadster information, specifications, history, and images.
		In 1891 they moved to Detroit so that Henry could start work at the Edison Illuminating Company as a repairman and technician.
		He began working harder, receiving several promotions and ending up as chief engineer of the steam engines that powered the Edison Illuminating Company.
		This was the first vehicle produced by the Ford Motor Company and its first owner was Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois who purchased the Model A on July 23, 1903.
	www.conceptcarz.com /vehicle/default.aspx?carID=5912&yr=0 (1277 words)

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