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Edison demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29, 1878. The device recorded on a phonograph cylinder using up-down (vertical) motion of the stylus. Edison's patent specified that the audio recording was embossed. U.S. patent 0,200,993 – Acoustic Telegraphs; U.S. patent 0,200,994 – Automatic-Telegraph Perforator and Transmitter
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses four contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. The buildings were designed by D. F. Creighton and built by the United States Sheet & Tin Plate Co.
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Charles W. Batchelor, inventor, associate of Thomas A. Edison, early executive of General Electric Company. Charles W. Batchelor (December 25, 1845 – January 1, 1910) was an inventor and close associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison during much of Edison's career. He was involved in some of the greatest inventions and technological ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Historian Thomas Hughes (1977) describes the features of Edison's method. In summary, they are: Hughes says, "In formulating problem-solving ideas, he was inventing; in developing inventions, his approach was akin to engineering; and in looking after financing and manufacturing and other post-invention and development activities, he was innovating."
The American Sheet and Tin Mill Apartment Building, one of the Edison Concept Houses, is a historic building at 633 West 4th Avenue in Gary, Indiana. The building was designed by D. F. Creighton and constructed in 1910. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 2009. [1]
Edison's films were made by the Kinetograph Department of the Edison Manufacturing Company. [ 4 ] Edison's first moviemaking studio—and also the world's first—was the "Black Maria" in West Orange, New Jersey , where production of Kinetoscope films began in early 1893.