Edison
Menlo Park inventor
Edison is a surname, most famously associated with Thomas Edison, the American inventor of the phonograph, practical electric light bulb, and motion picture technology.
The name has become shorthand for inventive genius: He fancies himself an Edison.
Edison is also used as a given name and appears in many American place names.
Creating something original
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- GEAmerican industrial conglomerate
kinetoscope · telegraph · multiplex · fluoroscopy · American
Exclusive rights to inventions
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- Menlo ParkNew Jersey invention site
- tinkererHobbyist who adjusts mechanisms
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
experimentation · genius · entrepreneur · pioneer · research · mechanism · gadgetry · discoveries
Unidirectional electrical flow
- generatorElectricity-producing machine
- dynamoMotion-to-electricity converter
- gridFramework of intersecting lines
- electrificationConversion to powered systems
distribution · utility · metering · wiring
Very thin thread
- incandescenceLight from heated objects
- tungstenElement seventy-four
- illuminationProvision of light
- glowSteady, soft light
brightness · lamp · wattage · lumen · vacuum · socket · commercialization
Circular-based solid form
- tinfoilThin metallic sheeting
- recordingCaptured audio or video
- soundAudible wave phenomenon
- audioTransmitted sound content
acoustic · gramophone · needle · stylus · playback · dictation · reproducer
EV manufacturer and surname
- WestinghouseAmerican industrial inventor
- ACElectrical current or cooling
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
innovation
Creating something original
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
GE · kinetoscope · telegraph · multiplex · fluoroscopy · American
patents
Exclusive rights to inventions
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- Menlo ParkNew Jersey invention site
- tinkererHobbyist who adjusts mechanisms
prototype · experimentation · genius · entrepreneur · pioneer · research · mechanism · gadgetry · discoveries · workshop
DC
Unidirectional electrical flow
- generatorElectricity-producing machine
- dynamoMotion-to-electricity converter
- gridFramework of intersecting lines
electrification · distribution · utility · metering · wiring
filament
Very thin thread
- incandescenceLight from heated objects
- tungstenElement seventy-four
- illuminationProvision of light
glow · brightness · lamp · wattage · lumen · vacuum · socket · commercialization
cylinder
Circular-based solid form
audio · acoustic · gramophone · needle · stylus · playback · dictation · reproducer
Tesla
EV manufacturer and surname
- WestinghouseAmerican industrial inventor
- ACElectrical current or cooling
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- American IconsAbraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr.
- American ScientistsBenjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Carl Sagan, Jonas Salk
- Electricity HistoryMichael Faraday, Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin, Nikola Tesla
- Science Historyscientific revolution, natural philosophy, scientific method, scientific journals, Royal Society
- Edisoninventor, phonograph, light bulb, incandescent lamp, incandescent bulb
- Electrical PioneersNikola Tesla, Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, Faraday
EdisonEinstein
Byword for genius
theoretical physicist · Newton · Maxwell · theorist · Tesla
EdisonEinstein
Byword for genius
Nikola Tesla · Jonas Salk · Michael Faraday · Stephen Hawking · Marie Curie
- Thomas EdisonProlific American inventor
- Edison bulbRetro-style incandescent light