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	Edison Park Chamber Of Commerce - History
		Edison Park is named for inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who gave his blessing to this community namesake in 1890.
		Edison Park is perched on a glacial morraine, one of a series of ridges left behind as the glaciers retreated.
		When Edison Fuel and Material closed its yard on Avondale in the 1970s, its distinctive storage towers were torn down, but an effort was made by the Edison Park Community Council to rezone the site so it would be earmarked for light manufacturing and keep jobs available in the community.
	www.edisonpark.com /history.html (2847 words)

	Edison National Historic Site
		Edison toured the country with the tin foil phonograph, and was invited to the White House to demonstrate it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in April 1878.
		Edison's eventual achievement was inventing not just an incandescent electric light, but also an electric lighting system that contained all the elements necessary to make the incandescent light practical, safe, and economical.
		Edison was sixty-four by this time and his role with his company and in life began to change.
	www.nps.gov /edis/edisonia/tae_bio.html (2294 words)

	Edison - His Life and Inventions By Frank Lewis Dyer-Chapter 30
		Edison is actively interested; but, as a matter of fact, Edison's round of toil and relaxation is singularly uniform and free from agitation, and that is the way he would rather have it.
		Edison followed up his work on the diplex and combined the two systems into the quadruplex, by means of which FOUR messages could be sent and received simultaneously over the one wire, two in each direction, thus employing eight operators--four at each end--two sending and two receiving.
		Edison has taken no active part in the development of the more modern wireless telegraphy, and his name has not occurred in connection therewith, the underlying phenomena had been noted by him many years in advance of the art, as will presently be explained.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/Biography/edison/chapter30.html (19925 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		medal medal, a piece of metal, cast or struck, often coin-shaped.
		Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931, American inventor, b.
		A genius in the practical application of scientific principles, Edison was one of the greatest and most productive inventors of his time, but his formal schooling was limited to three months in Port Huron, Mich., in 1854.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Edison+Medal (465 words)

	Edison Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the IEEE "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this field of engineering.
		Tesla worked with Edison after he arrived in the US, but the two men were worlds apart and soon they went their separate ways again.
		The war of currents, AC (Tesla) and DC (Edison) that started a few years later brought animosity and bitterness to the two.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edison_Medal (269 words)

	Edison Medal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the (Click link for more info and facts about IEEE) IEEE "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this field of engineering.
		The award is named after (United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)) Thomas Edison.
		The first medal was presented in 1909 to (United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)) Elihu Thomson.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ed/Edison_Medal.htm (290 words)

	Learn more about Nikola Tesla in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tesla is also noted for inventing the Tesla coil and a bladeless turbine (which functions on the principles of fluid viscosity and the boundary layer effect).
		During this time, direct current was the standard, and Edison was not disposed to lose all his patent royalties to a former employee.
		Due to the fact that the Nobel Prize was awarded to Marconi for radio in 1909, it was believed that Tesla and Edison were to share the Nobel Prize of 1912 (or 1915; some accounts differ).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/ni/nikola_tesla.html (5775 words)

	United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Thomas A. Edison
		In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park." The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent light bulb.
		Edison was quoted as saying, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." In tribute to this important American, electric lights in the United States were dimmed for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after his death.
		Joint Resolution To provide for the striking of a medal commemorative of the achievements of Thomas A. Edison in illumining the path of progress through the development and application of inventions that have revolutionized civilization in the last century.
	www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /ThomasEdison.htm (412 words)

	Save America's Treasures - Project Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Edison also lost much of his hearing in youth but did not consider this a "handicap" and said that it was rather an advantage as it gave him more time to think because he did not have to listen to foolish "small talk."
		Edison learned how to use a telegraph while working with a stationmaster and this knowledge allowed Edison to work around the country as an operator.
		Edison's prototypes, valuable notes, and photographs are decomposing because they lack proper storage and climate control, and many are close to being lost before being catalogued.
	www.saveamericastreasures.org /profiles/edison.htm (968 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He arrived in the United States in 1881 and was employed by Thomas A. Edison as a secretary.
		He was Edison's chief electrical assistant (1887-94) and was later professor at Harvard (1902-30) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1913-24).
		Modesto, Calif. He holds records for winning the most gold medals at one Olympic games (seven, in 1972 at Munich) and shares the record for most gold medals overall (nine, in 1968 and 1972).
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Edison+Medal&rc=10&fh=3&fr=21 (450 words)

	Nikola Tesla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Edison had all sorts of problems with his DC system of electricity.
		Edison constantly tried to show that AC electricity was far more dangerous than his DC power.
		Edison rejected Tesla's idea as ludicrous and the world had to wait another 25 years until it was invented.
	members.tripod.com /~earthdude1/tesla/tesla.html (1807 words)

	Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Dupuis to be Awarded IEEE Edison Award
		The medal will be presented at the 2007 IEEE Meeting Series II conference, to be held June 12-17 in Philadelphia.
		The Edison Medal is bestowed for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts.
		“The Edison Medal is a very special and truly wonderful honor for me, both because of the outstanding and innovative inventor and engineer for whom it is named and for the very many truly exceptional individuals who have received it before me,” remarked Dupuis.
	www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=1294 (854 words)

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		Edison had done much work in the development of what is called direct current, in which the flow of electrons is constant in one direction.
		Edison had wired portions of several cities, beginning with New York on September 4, 1882, when the Pearl Street power station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company opened for business.
		Edison promptly began waging a propaganda campaign, claiming that alternating current was dangerous.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1493/readings/Edison%20and%20the%20Electric%20Chair.htm (1368 words)

	Nikola Tesla - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As if lighting the Exposition was not enough, Tesla explained the principles of the rotating magnetic field and induction motor by demonstrating how to make an egg (made of copper) stand on end in his version of the Egg of Columbus.
		As a result of the "War of Currents" Edison and Westinghouse were almost bankrupt, so in 1897 Tesla released Westinghouse from contract providing Westinghouse a break from Tesla's AC motor royalties.
		Bell's telephone, Edison's phonograph, or my induction motor were inventions, but the wireless transmission of energy is an art that requires a great many inventions in combination.', (Nikola Tesla, 1916, in Ed.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /nikola_tesla.htm (5863 words)

	Bill Gates, A Modern Edison?
		In Edison's case it was not a personal fortune but the backing of the J.P. Morgan, who was renowned for his 'aggressive' and 'destructive' method of competition.
		Edison entered the market place with many advantages other than Morgan-money, not the least of which was his widespread reputation.
		Moreover, when confronting emerging competition from AC, Edison employed what could be called a campaign of "fear, uncertainty, and doubt." (This modern term was used by Microsoft to describe their strategy against competing operating systems.) For example, he staged the public executions of animals using AC to demonstrate its purported dangers.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/partisan/010800.htm (696 words)

	IEEE Edison Medal
		Thomas Alva Edison was endowed with many of those qualities and characteristics which are so necessary to bridge the gap between imagination and realization.
		Edison's friends and associates created a medal in his name, to commemorate the achievements of a quarter of a century in the art of electric lighting.
		In their words: 'The Edison Medal should, during the centuries to come, serve as an honorable incentive to scientists, engineers, and artisans to maintain by their works the high standard of accomplishment set by the illustrious man whose name and feats shall live while human intelligence continues to inhabit the world.'
	www.ieee.org /portal/pages/about/awards/sums/edisonsum.html (287 words)

	Edison Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Edison goes to the state championships in full force this year.
		Edison's senior team competing in Marlboro on 2/28/05 won the league championship after placing 2nd the past two seasons.
		Edison's A Team finished unbeaten for the first time since the 2001 season, a perfect 11 - 0 under 1st year Head Coach Tyler Solley.
	www.eteamz.com /edisoneagleswrestling (525 words)

	Topsy, elephant. Roadside Pet Cemetery
		Edison at the time was engaged in his own free-for-all, battling George Westinghouse for control of America's electric infrastructure.
		Edison had declared that his direct current system was safe, but that Westinghouse's alternating current was a deadly menace.
		And it was Edison who had convinced New York to use Westinghouse's "deadly" AC for their electric chair.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /pet/topsy.html (398 words)

	Encyclopedia: Edison Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 â€“ October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many important devices.
		Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890–June 30, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor, and politician, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex —seen as a pioneering concept for the world wide web.
		Following several attempts to form a technical organization of wireless practitioners in 1908-1912, the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was finally established in 1912 in New York.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edison-Medal (710 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Thomas Edison’s Deadly Game
		Edison had done much work in the development of what is called direct current, in which the flow of electrons is constant in one direction.
		Edison was deeply committed emotionally and financially to this technology.
		Edison promptly began waging a propaganda campaign, claiming that alternating current was dangerous.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2000/6/2000_6_15.shtml (1473 words)

	Faculty of Arts & Sciences: News and Events
		IEEE awards the Edison Medal, created by a group of Edison's friends and associates, to researchers whose careers reflect meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts.
		"Like Edison, Capasso's achievements are consistent with his sustained record of inventions which have led to new applications in diverse fields from telecommunications to environmental monitoring," says Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard University.
		The award, which consists of a gold medal, a small gold replica, certificate, and a cash honorarium of $10,000, will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on June 19, 2004 in Kansas City, MO.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /home/news_and_events/releases/capasso_12182003.html (409 words)

	Tesla (Tesla, Nikola - People): Edison Medal
		While Edison too worked long hours, he would often take cat-naps in-between.
		Mr Chiraag Patel, the highest mark student in Electromagnetic Theory, is the winner of the 2004 Tesla Medal.
		The Medal was presented by Dr Vujo Knezevic at the ceremony organized by the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at University of Western Australia.
	www.lycos.com /info/tesla-tesla-nikola-people--edison-medal.html?page=2 (395 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Tesla, Nikola
		Tesla was the recipient of the Edison Medal in 1917, the highest honour that the American Institute of Electrical Engineers could bestow.
		Edison recognized his talent, and put him to work immediately at his lab in West Orange, New Jersey, designing motors and generators which would make wireless radio transmission possible, at a time when Marconi had yet to make his mark.
		As winner of the Edison Medal in 1916, he was said to be "power-minded" rather than "communication-minded".
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/TESLA_BIO.html (6224 words)

	Nikola Tesla (the Years after Age 40) - Succeed through Studying Biographies
		He was then told he was to receive the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
		Edison was a businessman and Tesla's polar opposite.
		Edison's name is much better known than Tesla's and is associated with more inventions.
	www.school-for-champions.com /biographies/tesla2.htm (1405 words)

	Berliner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		While Thomas Edison's 1877 phonograph was "a wonderful invention," in the words of a contemporary Scientific American, in its original tinfoil form it was impractical for common use.
		Again, when Edison was presented with a statue of "Orpheus Discovering the Gramophone Record," it was not Berliner but a host of his friends who complained, as they also did when Congress was considering awarding Edison a medal for the development of the gramophone, in addition to his numerous authentic inventions.
		Elliot Cresson gold medal was presented to Emile Berliner by the Franklin Institute in 1913 in recognition of his scientific contributions to telephony and acoustics.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/berliner.html (5806 words)

	NIKOLA TESLA -- ERASED AT THE SMITHSONIAN ( or 3rd graders take on the Establishment ) [Free Republic]
		Edison's ego would not permit him to agree with Tesla, whom Edison knew was correct.......
		Edison envisioned electric power for factories, street lighting etc., but with DC it would have required a generator every 2-3 miles, or copper cable as thick as your arm to transport it further.
		Edison built it using AC for the Sing Sing prison in New York and used his influence with the State to have a man executed in it with the press in attendance.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37dbcdbd4a8a.htm (6903 words)

	Tesla'a Biography
		This disagreement climaxed in the war of the currents as Edison fought a losing battle to protect his investment in direct current equipment and facilities.
		Edison did not want to lose his DC empire, and a bitter war ensued.
		In 1917, Tesla was awarded the Edison Medal, the most coveted electrical prize in the United States.
	www.teslasociety.com /biography.htm (2842 words)

	Frank Julian Sprague, Ensign, United States Navy
		He was an assistant to Thomas Edison in 1883 and independently created a superior electric motor that was readily adaptable to industrial machinery.
		Sprague also revised and corrected the Edison system of mains and feeders for central station distribution and developed a formula for determining the ratio of wire size to current amperage.
		Louis Exhibition in 1904 and the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1910.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /fjsprague.htm (1577 words)

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