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