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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847- (search)
Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847- Electrician; born in Milan, O., Feb. 11, 1847. He was taught by his mother till he was twelve years old, when he began work as a newspaper boy, obtaining an exclusive contract for the sale of newspapers on the Detroit, he, with a neighbor who had similar inclinations, built a line a mile long through a wood which separated their homes. Edison made the instruments, but having no way of getting a battery felt at a loss as to how he should proceed. He soon thoughtperimenting in the daytime. In 1869 he retired from the operator's table, and, leaving Boston, where he was then Thomas Alva Edison. employed, went to New York with original apparatus for duplex and printing telegraphy, the latter being the basis elf on an independent footing, with everything which could contribute to or facilitate invention and research. In 1886 Mr. Edison bought property in Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J., and later removed there from Menlo Park. His inventions are many and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electricity. (search)
Electricity. The employment of electricity for illumination, and as a mover of machinery, has added an interesting chapter to the volume of our national history; and the name of Edison as one of the chief promoters of the use of the mysterious agent for lighting, heating, and motive power is coextensive with the realm of civilization. Ever since the discovery of electro-magnetism, thoughtful men have contemplated the possibility of producing a controllable electric illuminator and motor. In 1845 John W. Starr, of Cincinnati, filed a caveat in the United States Patent Office for a divisible electric light. He went to England to complete and prove the utility of his invention. There George Peabody, the American banker, offered him all the money he might need, in case his experiment should be successful. It proved so at an exhibition of it at Manchester before scientific men. Professor Incandescent lamp. Faraday pronounced it perfect. Starr was so excited by his success tha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electricity in the nineteenth century. (search)
duction of which many inventors had turned their attention, notably Edison, Hughes, Blake, and Hunnings. Few of those who talk between Bostaneously with the beginning of the commercial work of arc lighting, Edison, in a successful effort to provide a small electric lamp for generas, brought to public notice his carbon filament incandescent lamp. Edison worked for nearly two years on a lamp based upon the old idea of iace of batteries, but sudden death put an end to his labors. The Edison lamp differed from those which preceded it in the extremely small srent, and in the perfection of the vacuum in which it was mounted. Edison first exhibited his lamp in his laboratory at Menlo Park, in Decemball parts of the system were made more perfect, and in the hands of Edison and others the incandescent lamps, originally of high cost, were muby Siemens, in Berlin, in 1879 and 1880, by Stephen D. Field, by T. A. Edison, at Menlo Park, by J. C. Henry, by Charles A. Van Depoele, and o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kelly, James Edward 1855- (search)
Kelly, James Edward 1855- Sculptor; born in New York City, July 30, 1855; began studying art under Charles Parsons, of the art department of Harper & Brothers, in 1873, and subsequently at the Academy of Design; and in 1878 began his career as an illustrator in sculpture of personages and events prominent in American history by modelling the well-known statuette of Sheridan's ride, for which the general posed. In the following year he made a portrait bust of Thomas A. Edison with the first phonograph; and in 1882 produced the Paul Revere statue. During 1883-85 he was engaged on the five panels for the Monmouth Battle Monument, representing the Council of War at Hopewell; Ramsey defending his guns; Washington rallying his troops; Molly Pitcher; and Wayne's charge. In 1886 he completed Grant at Donelson, for which the general furnished sittings and details. For the Saratoga Monument he produced the panels, Arnold wounded in the trenches; and Schuyler transferring his plans to Ga
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Telephone, the (search)
Telephone, the Chronology of: Robert Hook conveyed sounds to a distance by distended wire......1667 Alexander Graham Bell begins his investigation of electrical transmission and reproduction of articulate speech......July, 1874 Bell constructs an electrical telephone, with a diaphragm of gold-beater's skin, which transmits speech......July, 1875 Thomas A. Edison, furnished by William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, with a description of Reis's telephone, begins experiments with a view to producing an articulating telephone......July, 1875 Elisha Gray files his caveat for an invention to transmit the tones of the human voice through a telegraphic circuit, etc......Feb. 14, 1876 Professor Bell publicly explains his method before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston......May 10, 1876 Bell's telephone exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa.......June, 1876 Iron diaphragm first used by Bell......June
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
ture of Princeton celebrated by a mock fight of Newark and Pennsylvania militia......Jan. 3, 1877 Convention of colored men held at Princeton to consider the condition of their race, politically and socially......Aug. 22, 1877 Bureau of labor statistics created by act of legislature......1878 Liberal League of New Jersey, the outgrowth of the Citizens' Protective Association of Newark, in State convention at Newark, demand remodelling of the Sunday laws......September, 1879 Thomas Alva Edison establishes a laboratory at Menlo Park, 1876; exhibits his newly invented system of electric lighting by incandescent carbon vacuum lamps......December, 1879 Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen appointed Secretary of State under President Arthur......Dec. 12, 1881 Act passed to create a council of State charities and correction, to consist of six persons appointed by the governor......March 28, 1883 Law enacted to abolish and prohibit the employment under contract of convicts and