Iles, George. Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man’s Progress from the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color. Doubleday, Page, 1903.
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Thomas Edison
Standard Name: Edison, Thomas
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10 July 1874: The New York Times reported that a successful...
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10 July 1874
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.
Jehl, Francis. “Edison and the Telegraph”. The Electric Telegraph: An Historical Anthology, edited by George Shiers, Arno Press, 1977, pp. 32-77.
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Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. John Wiley, 1998.
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By 21 November 1877: Thomas Edison designed the first phonograph,...
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By 21 November 1877
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.
Millard, Andre J. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
1, 27, 37
Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. John Wiley, 1998.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 November 2014
1878: Thomas Edison developed the prototype for...
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1878
Thomas Edison
developed the prototype for the incandescent filament lamp.
Debeir, Jean-Claude et al. In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization through the Ages. Translator Barzman, John, Zed Books, 1991.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
255
31 December 1879: Thomas Edison presented his newly invented...
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31 December 1879
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.
Friedel, Robert et al. Edison’s Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. Rutgers University Press, 1986.
109-14
1883: Thomas Edison of the US and Joseph Swan of...
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1883
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
.
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
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1886: Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and...
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1886
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.
Millard, Andre J. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
30, 31
1888: Emile Berliner demonstrated his new invention,...
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1888
Emile Berliner
demonstrated his new invention, the gramophone, which built on the technology of the phonograph, invented eleven years earlier by Thomas Edison
.
Millard, Andre J. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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1 February 1893: Thomas Edison opened the world's first film...
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1 February 1893
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...
14 April 1894: Thomas Edison opened the first movie theater,...
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14 April 1894
Thomas Edison
opened the first movie theater, the Kinetoscope Parlor, at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
223
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
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17 October 1894: The first cinema in England, Thomas Edison's...
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17 October 1894
The first cinema in England, Thomas Edison
's Kinetoscope parlour, opened at 70 Oxford Street, London, six months after the one in New York.
Cooke, Lez. “British Cinema: From Cottage Industry to Mass Entertainment”. Literature and Culture in Modern Britain Volume One: 1900-1929, edited by Clive Bloom, Longman, 1993, pp. 167-88.
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14 January 1896: The British public was first shown films:...
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14 January 1896
The British public was first shown films: by Birt Acres
at the Royal Photographic Society
headquarters at 14 Hanover Square, London.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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8 August 1910: The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated...
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8 August 1910
The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated by Thomas Edison
.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
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