2012 Event The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer 1997 Event Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M 1996 Death Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67 1992 Death Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94 1991 Event "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 126 performances 1990 Event "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances 1990 Event "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 16 performances 1990 Event "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 16 performances 1989 Event "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances 1982 Event U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea 1976 Event "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 5959 performances 1975 Event "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 7 performances 1975 Event "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 7 performances 1972 Event "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances 1972 Event "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances 1972 Event "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 4 performances 1972 Event "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 4 performances 1972 Event "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 144 performances 1971 Event "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances 1971 Event "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance 1970 Event Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City 1969 Death Charles Edison, American Businessman 1940 Birthday Edison Pele, Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire, New York Cosmos 1931 Death Thomas Edison, 1931 Death Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at 84 1929 Birthday Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer 1926 Event Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 1915 Event Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1894 Event 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) 1894 Event Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device 1894 Event "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters 1893 Event 1st movie close-up, of a sneeze, Edison studio, West Orange, New Jersey 1893 Event Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey 1892 Event U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp 1891 Event Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) 1891 Event Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1890 Birthday Charles Edison, American Businessman 1889 Event Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 1882 Event 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison 1880 Event Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1879 Event Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1879 Event Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park 1879 Event Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb 1879 Event Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light 1878 Event Edison makes electricity available for household usage 1878 Event Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1878 Event Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) 1877 Event Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1877 Event Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone 1877 Event 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) 1877 Event Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph 1877 Event Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) 1877 Event Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device 1876 Event Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 1869 Event Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison 1868 Event Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine 1847 Birthday Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor 1838 Birthday Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
