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    Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company with the merger of the Swan United Electric Company and the Edison Electric Light Company. Thomas Edison established...
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    of the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company. Known commonly as "Ediswan", the company sold lamps made with a cellulose filament that Swan had invented...
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    design. The rivalry between Swan and Edison eventually led to a merger, forming the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company. By the early twentieth century...
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    bulbs made popular by Edison Electric Light Company at the turn of the 20th century. They are easily identified by the long and complicated windings of...
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    Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric. They conclude that Edison's version...
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    Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power...
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    other electric lighting devices; and Edison Electric Light Company, the patent-holding company and financial arm for Edison's lighting experiments, backed...
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    started with the use of Arc lamps, soon followed by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulb. Most indoor lighting prior to this was done by...
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    with Edison General Electric Company in 1892. At this stage Laing, Wharton and Down was renamed as British Thomson-Houston and General Electric became...
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    time, and was chairman from 1872 until 1901. He held many other board posts: he was chairman of the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company and two other...
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    telecine Edison and Swan Electric Light Company (British Mazda/EdiSwan): ME91 – AC/DC mains tuning indicator Edison and Swan Electric Light Company (British...
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    investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) in California; the other five are PacifiCorp, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, Bear Valley Electric, and...
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    performed by the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company. In addition to the incandescent lamps, Servia was also fitted with a new type of compass and deep-sea...
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  • Thomas Edison, American inventor – Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, Edison effect, Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe, Ltd., Edison Hotel...
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    Thomson-Houston, Edison Swan, Siemens Brothers & Co, Hotpoint, William Thomas Henley and Birlec. In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating...
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    History of Newcastle upon Tyne (category History of Tyne and Wear)
    Eventually the two rivals agreed to form a mutual company between them, the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, known as Ediswan. Charles Algernon Parsons...
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    manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made from a nitrocellulose compound developed at the Edison laboratory—though...
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    Electric Lighting". 1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 40 hours. 1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb...
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    and ventilation system was designed and installed by W.W. Phipson and electric lighting was installed by the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company....
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  • Thomas Edison, Sells Its Lighting Business". New York Times. Retrieved December 3, 2023. General Electric official history Trumbull Electric Manufacturing...
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    by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879. Consequently, Newcastle has the first city street in the world to be lit by electric lighting....
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    Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Swan Company, Ferranti, Edison Telephone, and later the Edison Electric Light Company. In 1892, Fleming presented...
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    Toaster (redirect from Electric toaster)
    the first successful incandescent lightbulbs by Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison. However, the light bulb took advantage of the presence of a vacuum, something...
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    William Joseph Hammer (category Edison Pioneers)
    advertising sign using incandescent electric lights. He was chief engineer when the English Edison Electric Light company built a central station in London...
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  • Electrification (category Electric power)
    other electric companies were establishing central power stations and distributing electricity, including Crompton & Co. and the Swan Electric Light Company...
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    that for CD spindles. Bi-pin lamp base Storz Arri bayonet Joseph Swan BNC connector Edison screw "Fiji Electricity Authority Tender Document" (PDF). Ancient...
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  • Thorn Lighting (category Manufacturing companies established in 1928)
    'Metrovick' brand; and the Edison & Swan Electric Light Company (Ediswan), which had recently transferred its factory at Ponders End and ‘Royal Ediswan’...
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  • D.Sc. Eino Tetri, Leader of the Light Sources and Energy Group in Aalto University United States v. General Electric Co. et al., 82 F.Supp. 753 (D.N.J...
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  • English Electric acquired the Marconi Company in 1946 to complement its other operations: heavy electrical engineering, aircraft manufacture and its railway...
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    Lampshade (category Light fixtures)
    light downwards, while another reflector, slightly concave and near the flame, directed the light laterally. In 1879, Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison independently...
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