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  Edisonian approach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edison could not use theory to solve this problem because, as Gorman and Carlson note, at the time "no one had yet developed a chemical theory that Edison could have used to identify a form of carbon with the electrical properties he wanted" (Gorman and Carlson, 1990).
Edison was also very effective at sketching, enabling him to conceive and manipulate his ideas on paper.
Edison was distinguished by his ability to deal with complex change.
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 List of Edison patents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edison is credited for contributing to various innovation, including the phonograph, the kinetoscope, the dictaphone, radio, the electric lamp (in particular the incandescent light bulb), the autographic printer, and the tattoo gun.
Edison was a prolific inventor of his time and it is reported that he holds a record 1,093 American patents in his name.
Edison's patent specified that the audio recording was embossed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Edison_patents   (2779 words)

  
 Edison's Patents - The Edison Papers
His issued patents are presented here in three lists—by execution date, patent date, and subject.
Edison's British patents for the years 1872–1880 appear in a bound volume in the Charles Batchelor collection.
Patents before 1975 are searchable by patent number and classification, and patents issued between 1790 and 1836—which were not numbered—have been assigned chronologically ordered "X" numbers.
edison.rutgers.edu /patents.htm   (550 words)

  
 Biography of Thomas Edison - Biographyies List - BiograhpyFinder.com
Edison was considered one of the most prolific inventors of his time, holding a record 1,093 patents in his name.
Edison (or, reportedly, one of his employees) employed the tactics of misusing Tesla's patents to construct the first electric chair for the state of New York in order to promote the idea that alternating current was deadly.
Edison did preside personally over several executions of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs, for the benefit of the press to prove that his inferior system of direct current was safer than that of alternating current.
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 Thomas Edison -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Edison's ancestors (the Dutch Edisons) emigrated to New Jersey in 1730.
Edison patented an electric distribution system in 1880, which was critical to capitalize on the electric lamp invention.
Edison became the owner of his Milan, Ohio birthplace in 1906, and, on his last visit, in 1923, he was shocked to find his old home still lit by lamps and candles.
www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Thomas_Edison   (3098 words)

  
 Edison, His Life and Inventions - CHAPTER XIV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Edison was not discouraged, and despite the active opposition made to his lamp, despite the polemic acerbity of which he was the object, he did not cease to perfect it; and he succeeded in producing the lamps which we now behold exhibited at the Exposition, and are admired by all for their perfect steadiness."
These patents were not by any means all that he applied for in the year 1880, which it will be remembered was the year in which he was perfecting the incandescent electric lamp and methods, to put into the market for competition with gas.
Edison's patents (see Appendices) is not only a monument to his life's work, but serves to show what subjects he has worked on from year to year since 1868.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/biography/Edison/chap14.html   (6202 words)

  
 List of Tesla patents -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
U.S. Patent 567818 - Electrical Condenser - 1896 September 15 - Condenser constructed or provided with means for exclusion of air or gas; Armature composed of a conducting liquid; Armatures in two separate bodies of conducting liquid insulated electrically and contained in a receptacle; Insulating liquid seal on the surface of the conductive liquids.
U.S. Patent 685012 - Means for Increasing the Intensity of Electrical Oscillations - 1900 March 21 - A method for producing a "great increase in the intensity and duration of the (electrical) oscillations excited in a freely-vibrating or resonating circuit by maintaining the same at a low temperature".
U.S. Patent 1402025 - Frequency-Meter - 1922 January 3 - Ascertain the periodic electric frequency and electric oscillation by the rotation or reciprocation of an electromechanical device.
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 Share and Discover Thomas Edison Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Edison was the inventor of most of the inventions produced there, though he primarily supervised the operation and work of his employees.
Edison (or, reportedly, one of his employees) employed the tactics of misusing Tesla's patents to construct the first electric chair for the state of New York to promote the idea that AC was deadly.
Edison presided personally over several electrocutions of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs, for the benefit of the press to prove that his system of DC was safer than that of AC.
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 Edison: His Life and Inventions - a 1929 book by Dyer and Martin
Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data.
Edison has always taken a keen interest in aerial flight, and has also experimented with aeroplanes, his preference inclining to the helicopter type, as noted in the newspapers and periodicals from time to time.
Edison employed this peculiar property by constructing a small machine in which a pivoted bar is alternately heated and cooled.
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 THOMAS EDISON'S INVENTIONS
Radically improved stock tickers and patented several associated inventions, among which were the Universal Stock Ticker and the Unison Device.
Patent No. 465,971 was issued on this invention, the application having been filed May 23, 1885 - two years prior to the publication of the work of Hertz.
Edison was awarded 1,368 separate and distinct patents during his lifetime.
www.thomasedison.com /Inventions.htm   (2867 words)

  
 Edison National Historic Site
Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder, on October 28, 1868 when he was 21.
Most of Edison's patents were utility patents, but about a dozen of them are design patents.
Edison received hundreds of patents for things he improved but did not originally invent: the telegraph, telephone, stock ticker and typewriter are just a few examples.
www.nps.gov /edis/edisonia/patent_list.html   (709 words)

  
 Thomas Edison
Edison saw the challenge was to subdivide the light.
Edison realized he needed all the parts of the system--improved vacuum pump, efficient dynamo, wiring systems (and the practicalities of that meant that the filament had to have high resistance),
Edison argued that AC was too dangerous and arranged public demonstrations where stray cats and dogs (purchased from local schoolboys for 25 cents each) were electrocuted.
www.clemson.edu /caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec122/edison.htm   (801 words)

  
 Perilocity: A Patent for Trouble
A really brief summary might include that patents were invented to promote invention and thus to promote the economy by giving inventors temporary limited rights to their inventions so they would have economic incentive to invent them.
The first software patent I ever heard of was snuck through by including diagrams and description as if it were a physical machine: this was Dennis Ritchie's patent no. 4,135,240 of 16 January 1979, "protection of data file contents" for the Unix setuid bit.
This is called a patent pool or a patent thicket, and it serves to keep any of several vendors from suing each other, since each owns a patent on an essential piece of technology in their industry.
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 edison invention - , future invention, civil war invention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio to Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr.
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained Edison wide fame was the phonograph in 1877.
Edison's demonstrations peaked with the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant.
www.motivational-depot.com /biography/edison.htm   (3119 words)

  
 Adventures in CyberSound: Thomas Edison's Inventions and Patents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Edison and his staff were working on as many as 40 projects at one time and he was applying for nearly 400 patents each year during this time.
All told, Thomas Edison received patents for 1093 inventions, as either sole inventor or co-inventor.
Thomas Edison was the major force in "The Machine Age" and later in life commented on the effects his and other inventions would have on the future....
www.acmi.net.au /AIC/EDISON_PATENT.html   (199 words)

  
 Edison Birthplace Museum - Inventions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This page lists the principal inventions and discoveries of Thomas Edison.
A complete list of Edison's patents -- over 1,000 -- is provided on the Patents page.
Edison served as Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board and did much other work on National Defense.
www.tomedison.org /invent.html   (215 words)

  
 Biography-Directory - thomas-edison-biography-
His contributions to technology benefited people world-wide, and in 1878, he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France, and in 1889 was made a Commander in the Legion of Honor.
There is a Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum in the town of Edison.
Life magazine (USA), in a special double issue, placed Edison first in the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years", noting that his light bulb "lit up the world".
thomas-edison.biography-directory.com /thomas-edison-biography-3.htm   (357 words)

  
 Fogler Library:Information on Historical Patents
Lists the number of the first U.S. patent (utility, design, plant, and reissue) issued in each year since1836.
Official Land Patent Records Site A land patent was a title deed issued to an individual by the federal government.
U.S. Patent Activity, 1790-2001 Reports the numbers of utility (invention), design, and plant patents issued and applications received yearly.
www.library.umaine.edu /patents/historical.htm   (347 words)

  
 LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS
List of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, arranged according to dates of execution of applications for such patents.
Edison has worked upon them from year to year 1868.
Use and reproduction of this material is governed by Globusz Publishing's standard terms and conditions.
www.globusz.com /ebooks/Edison/00000042.htm   (3715 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - You really can find identities of top patent holders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His most recent patent, in June, was titled, "Ultrathin high-K gate dielectric with favorable interface properties for improved semiconductor device performance." I think I'm going to ask for one for Christmas.
From the lists I've seen and from poking around the USPTO's database, it seems likely that she is indeed the most-prolific female inventor.
It's possible that any patent list results are skewed because various government agencies have the ability to classify any patent as secret and make it invisible to the public.
www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/maney/2005-12-13-patent_x.htm   (947 words)

  
 Edison's U.S. Patents, Edison's U.S. Patents, 90,646-242,901 - The Edison Papers
This list contains the patents Edison received before June 1881.
It is arranged in chronological order by issue date, the time at which the patent, having passed inspection and any legal challenges, was awarded.
The execution date is the date on which Edison signed the application and the date in the patenting process that comes closest to the time of actual inventive activity; the application date is the date on which the Patent Office received and recorded the application.
edison.rutgers.edu /patenti1.htm   (111 words)

  
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Edison’s demonstrations of his talking machine, a device that could reproduce the voices of people who were not present, caused him to be called The Wizard of Menlo Park.
See the first movie ever made and marvel at the incredible stories of rivalry and brilliance that defined the career of Thomas Edison-the greatest inventor in American history.
From Edison to THX and Dolby surround sound, this is the story of man's quest to capture sound.
www.audioannals.com /edisonta.htm   (219 words)

  
 Phonographs & Sound Recording Patents - The Edison Papers
The following list contains the 199 patents Edison received concerning phonographs and sound recording.
It is arranged in chronological order by execution date, which is the date on which Edison signed the application and the date in the patenting process that comes closest to the time of actual inventive activity.
The application date is the date on which the Patent Office received and recorded the application; the issue date, the time at which the patent, having passed inspection and any legal challenges, was awarded.
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 NATIONAL INVENTOR FRAUD CENTER, INC. -- EDUCATING INVENTORS ABOUT INVENTION MARKETING AND PATENTS
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 Edison, His Life and Inventions - LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Edison, His Life and Inventions - LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS
ist of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, arranged according to dates of execution of applications for such patents.
Edison has worked upon them from year to year
www.worldwideschool.com /library/books/hst/biography/Edison/chap50.html   (3517 words)

  
 From Sun Newspapers . . .
An entire list of Edison's patents, more than 1,000, is online, listed in chronological order.
Another list tells of his major inventions, such as the phonograph and the motion picture camera.
The list of music played on the show is awesome.
www.sunnews.com /news/cyber/cyber98/cyber111298.htm   (1413 words)

  
 phonographics on The Skateboard Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lithograph of Edison with his talking machine, 1878, taken from a Matthew B...
Lithograph of Edison with his talking machine, 1878, taken from a Matthew Brady photograph.
Also Sign on truck reads: "Carload of The New Edison Phonographs for Washington...
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 Education World® - *Arts & Humanities : Performance Arts : Music : Composers : Bach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The American Experience: Edison's Miracle of Light see a list of Edison's 1093 patents and photos of some of his inventions, learn the difference between AC and DC current, hear Edison recordings, and view a biographical timeline.
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WWW Virtual Library Mechanical Engineering Lists academic departments, institutes, societies, commercial departments and information guides pertaining to mechanical engineering.
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