Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament

thumb|A typical modern component turntable, showing the curved tonearm with a headshell at the end, under which lies the magnetic cartridge and its attached stylus touching down on the grooves of a black record placed on the turntable's platter

American multinational conglomerate

township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States

1903 American silent short Western film directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

thermally induced flow of charge carriers from a surface

thumb|right|Interior view of Kinetoscope with peephole viewer at top of cabinet

1893 film directed by William Kennedy Dickson

an era of clash between use of Alternating and Direct Current for electric power distribution

1894 film by William Kennedy Dickson

motion picture film format

medium for recording and reproducing sound

type of microphone design

1894 film

1894 film

1894 American silent short film directed by William Kennedy Dickson

award presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

female Asian elephant electrocuted in Coney Island

Film Studios founded By Thomas A. Edison in 1894

1894 silent film directed by William Kennedy Dickson

Monopolistic organization of the American film industry (1908–1918)

energy company in the United States

1903 silent film

unincorporated community in Middlesex County, New Jersey, U.S

1901 film by Thomas Alva Edison

1901 silent short film

museum of history in Dearborn, Michigan, United States

digital communication media

early record label

children's toy doll

company organized in 1889 by Thomas Edison

Anglo-American pioneer of cinema and gramophone and collector of ceramics

television program

employee organization

A phonometer is an instrument invented by Thomas Edison for testing the force of the human voice in speaking. It consists chiefly of a mouthpiece and diaphragm. Behind the diaphragm is placed a delicate mechanism which operates a 15-inch flywheel by means of which a hole can be bored in an ordinary pine board.

Edisonade is a genre of fictional stories about a brilliant young inventor and his inventions, many of which would now be classified as science fiction. This subgenre started in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and had its apex of popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other related terms for fiction of this type include scientific romances. The term was introduced in 1990 by John Clute and popularized in 1993 in his and Peter Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It is an eponym, named after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term "Robinsonad