Thomas Edison

The New York Times reported that a successful test of the quadruplex system of telegraphy, developed by Thomas Edison , had been conducted between New York and Philadelphia over a 200-mile loop cicuit.

Thomas Edison designed the first phonograph, an invention that marks the start of sound-recording technology. This was the day on which he unveiled his invention to the public.

Thomas Edison developed the prototype for the incandescent filament lamp.

Thomas Edison presented his newly invented electric lighting system to the public in an elaborate New Year's Eve demonstration in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

Thomas Edison of the US and Joseph Swan of the UK, inventors of incandescent carbon-filament electric lamps, formed a partnership in the UK and founded Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company Limited .

Alexander Graham Bell , Chichester Bell , and Charles Tainter , vastly improved the sound recording ability of Thomas Edison 's phonograph with their invention of the graphophone.

Emile Berliner demonstrated his new invention, the gramophone, which built on the technology of the phonograph, invented eleven years earlier by Thomas Edison .

Thomas Edison opened the world's first film studio in West Orange, New Jersey; the film strips were not designed for projection onto a screen but for individual viewers to watch, "peep-show" style, through a...

Thomas Edison opened the first movie theater, the Kinetoscope Parlor, at 1155 Broadway, New York City.

The first cinema in England, Thomas Edison 's Kinetoscope parlour, opened at 70 Oxford Street, London, six months after the one in New York.

The British public was first shown films: by Birt Acres at the Royal Photographic Society headquarters at 14 Hanover Square, London.

The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated by Thomas Edison .