Sentence examples for edison from inspiring English sources

The word 'Edison' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the famous inventor Thomas Edison, or his inventions. For example: "Thomas Edison was known for his invention of the light bulb."

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edison

proper noun

An English patronymic or matronymic (or just pamatronymic) surname derived from Adam and Edith.

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There is also evidence that in 1888 he shared with Thomas Edison some thoughts on combining a new projection system he had invented the zoopraxiscope with Edison's phonograph.

In addition to cash, he had an antique Edison phonograph with dozens of recording drums, which he left to the Dummerston Historical Society, Rowell said.

It finished with Edison Méndez firing the ball past Brad Jones, Australia's third goalkeeper of the evening, in injury time following excellent work from Antonio Valencia on the right wing.

Edison badly needed an equivalent transformer for DC.

Edison chose 110 volts as his standard to meet the requirements of electric lighting the dominant load of the day.

In a deeper, sense, then, perhaps Edison will have the last laugh, after all.

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At the edges of Boston-Edison, a historic district of gorgeous old houses built as one of the city's first wealthy suburbs between about 1900 and 1930, so low has the cost of housing fallen that fairly grand houses can be acquired simply for the cost of back property taxes.

Edison Liu, executive director of the Genome Institute of Singapore, likens this to a "Star Trek-ian" scan of the body, in which doctors may be able to see clumps of deregulated growth containing as few as ten cells.

IMAGINE what might have happened if, back in the 1880s, Thomas Edison had devoted his prodigious engineering talents to perfecting a direct-current transformer instead of wasting his energy disparaging the upstart alternating-current system from Europe that was being championed in America by George Westinghouse and his Serbian-American adviser, Nikola Tesla.

"IT IS possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture," observed Thomas Edison in 1913, predicting that books would soon be obsolete in the classroom.

Apple is widely assumed to be an innovator in the tradition of Thomas Edison or Bell Laboratories, locking its engineers away to cook up new ideas and basing products on their moments of inspiration.

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