THOMAS EDISON By Allen Wixted. Thomas Alva Edison 1847. He was one of the first inventors to apply...
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- THOMAS EDISON By Allen Wixted
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- Thomas Alva Edison 1847. He was one of the first inventors to
apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the
process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the
creation of the first industrial research laboratory. (Alfred
Whitehead) Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history,
holding 1,093 US patents in his name
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- working as a telegraph operator, he learned the basics of
electricity. stock ticker, the first electricity-based broadcast
system. patent for the motion picture camera or "Kinetograph" 1892,
Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph.
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- Edison made improvements to the idea of incandescent light, and
entered the public consciousness as "the inventor" of the lightbulb
George Westinghouse and Edison became adversaries because of
Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power
distribution instead of the more easily transmitted alternating
current (AC) system invented by Nikola Tesla and promoted by
Westinghouse. First commercially available fluoroscope, a machine
that uses X-rays to take radiographs
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- THOMAS EDISON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUDIO RECORDING By Kieran
D. O Sullivan
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- POINTS TO MAKE Thomas Alva Edison's contributions to music
recording and playback were not the first attempts at such a
device, but by far the most successful. Edison's phonograph was the
first device to both record and playback sound. The Phonautograph
(douard-Lon Scott de Martinville) and the Paleophone (Charles Cros)
are two of the main predecessors to Edison's Phonograph.
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- The machine consisted of a cylindrical disk which was covered
in tinfoil, in which the sound had been inscribed by the stylus of
the phonograph. Edison used cylinders, as he considered the
constant velocity they provided to the stylus more "Scientifically
correct" than using a disc. Ultimately, the disc became the
accepted norm, as they were much more convenient in many ways.
Sound is still recorded onto discs of other forms even today
(CDs).
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- ADVANCEMENTS Although Edison had unlocked the secret of
recording and playing sound, his design was impractical for many
reasons. The tinfoil he used was only useable a small amount of
times, and tore easily. Alexander Graham Bell expanded upon
Edison's design and modified it heavily until he was granted his
patent for a machine which recorded sound into wax. It is thought
that Edison would have expanded upon his tinfoil design to make it
even more efficient, however shortly after its invention, he was
contracted to spend 5 years developing an electric light and power
system for New York.
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- THOMAS EDISON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOVING PICTURES By Conor
McCoy (11136995)
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- EDISON MOTION PICTURES
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- THE SNEEZE 1894 First Copyrighted Film
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- EDISON MOTION PICTURES Founded in 1892 Built at West Orange,
New Jersey Studio name Black Maria as it resembled the police
wagons of the time. Closed in 1901 when they moved to New York
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- FINALLY Didnt take out a patent First Kinetoscope Parlour in
1894 owned by the Holland Brothers Evolved into Nickelodeons
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- THOMAS EDISONS CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN DAY
TELEVISION By Tiernan Morrisey
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- Thomas Edison was born on the 11th February 1847 and didn't
actually talk until he was4 years old and when he was in school, he
was presumed mentally slow by his teachers. This is slightly ironic
seeing as he helped to pave the way for the modern television that
we all know today.
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- Thomas Edison first started working on the very first motion
picture camera in 1888 and in 1891, the Kinetoscope and the
Kinetograph were conceived by Edison and two of his lab assistants,
William Kennedy and Laurie Dickson.
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- THE KINETOSCOPE 1.Peep Hole Invented 1888 William Dickson 2.
Image Reel
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- The Kinetoscope gave the illusion of movement by having
multiple still images on a strip of perferated film that were moved
over a light source with a high speed shutter. Many images were put
on multiple strips called reels. These were used in cinemas all
around the world for decades. The Kinetoscope also lead to one of
Edisons other inventions that was one of the othersigns of modern
day television, the Kinetograph.
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- The Kinetograph was the first hand held video camera. It used
rapid intermitant or stop-and-go film movement to document what was
happening in front of the camera lens. This method of filming
involved the use of a rotating shutter which would cut off the
supply of light to the perferated film and thus the image was
embeded onto the film. The film would then be run through the
Kinetoscope(which I talked about earlier). Both the Kinetoscope and
the Kinetograph helped to make television what it is today.
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- REFERENCES K.D. Pavate.. (1885). Thomas Alva Edison. American
Association for the Advancement of Science. 6 (133), p145-148. K.D.
Pavate.. (1885). Thomas Alva Edison, Contributions to Entertainment
and Communications. American Association for the Advancement of
Science. 5 (1), p71-75.
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- REFERENCES Adams (1934). W. S. Edison: His Life, His Work, His
Genius. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs Merrill. 50. Denis Condon (2008).
Early Irish Cinema 1895 - 1921. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
28-30.
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- REFERENCES Encyclopedia Britannica.inc. (2012). History of
motion picture: Thomas Edison and the Lumier Brothers. Available:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394161/history-of-the-
motion-picture/52136/Edison-and-the-Lumiere-brothers. Last accessed
05 March 2012 Mary Bellis. (2011). The History Of the Kinetograph.
Available:
http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope_2.htm.
Last accessed 05 March 2012
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- REFERENCES Colombia Encyclopedia. (2004). Edison, Thomas Alva.
Available:
http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/edison-thomas-
alva.jsp. Last accessed 05 March 2012. Paul Gray Friday. (1999). 19
th century: Thomas Edison (1847 1931). Available: Time Magazine.
Last accessed 5th Mar 2012.
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- FINALLY Edison was active in business right up to the end
Lackawanna Railroad implemented electric trains in suburban
service