Edison

[ ed-uh-suhn ]

noun

1. Thomas Al·va [al, -v, uh], 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
2. a township in central New Jersey.

Edison

/ ˈɛdɪsən /

noun

1. EdisonThomas Alva18471931MUSTECHNOLOGY: inventor Thomas Alva. 1847–1931, US inventor. He patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp, the microphone, and the kinetoscope

Edison

/ ĕd′ĭ-sən /

1. American inventor and physicist who took out more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime. His inventions include the telegraph (1869), microphone (1877), and light bulb (1879). He also designed the first power plant (1881–82), making possible the widespread distribution of electricity. During World War I, Edison worked on a number of military devices, including flamethrowers, periscopes, and torpedoes.

Example Sentences

Ossoff’s margin is over the recount threshold, and Edison predicted his margin will continue to grow once the remaining votes are counted.

From Washington Post

Edison visited Wallace's workshop on September 8, 1878, to check out the latter's prototype "arc light" system.

From Ars Technica

Edison has been on the right track for a long time, even before Moreno became principal, so she wanted to take on a new assignment to try to take the lessons of Edison to another school.

From Voice of San Diego

So how heavily Edison decides to weight the traditional-exit-poll respondents versus the phone respondents and early voters will add to the exit polls’ uncertainty this year.

From FiveThirtyEight

Smith’s and Edison’s approach is different from the way science is carried out in most classrooms.

From Science News For Students

And he would transform the electronics market that Edison had helped forge.

From The Daily Beast

For Edison, electricity was the fuel that powered a series of innovations.

From The Daily Beast

Steve Jobs performed a similar feat at Apple, more than a century after Edison worked his magic.

From The Daily Beast

And so, in a lesser-known breakthrough, Edison went on to build the first electrical power station and system.

From The Daily Beast

Edison-bulb chandeliers and other treasures tempt you from the display windows of The Paris Market.

From The Daily Beast

In the early Edison phonograph the sound vibrations were registered on a tinfoil-covered cylinder.

From Project Gutenberg

Professor Bell's first operative apparatus was accompanied by simultaneous inventions by Gray, Edison, and others.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the best known of the modern machines is Edison's, represented in the picture at the head of this article.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a boy Edison needed there then, whose toys reap fortunes and light, and enlighten, the world.

From Project Gutenberg

Edison never had more than two months regular schooling in his entire boyhood.

From Project Gutenberg