Thomas A. Edison

The last group of parameters relates to handling of the batteries. These include the mechanical strength (e.g., with respect to vibrations and shock accompanying transportation), maintenance, and foolproofness (a term introduced by Thomas A. Edison in 1911 as one of the characteristics of storage batteries). 

Blackton, J. Stuart and Albert E. Smith, producers. The clown and the alchemist / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. producer, J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith. USA Edison Manufacturing Co, 1900. 

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King returned to the United States in 1915 and went to work with Thomas A. Edison. When our country entered World War I, he was asked by Bernard Baruch and Charles McDowell to act as chief of the dyes and intermediates section of the War Industries Board. Through this work he became associated with the Calco Chemical Company, where I came to know him. King was closer to the development and manufacture of dyes and intermediates than was Herty. However, they were two valiant knights who fought lustily to protect and develop the American dye industry. 

The first such invention was by Aylsworth [1914] (Table 6.1, No. 1), who was at the time the chief chemist of Thomas A. Edison in the latter s West Orange, NJ laboratory. He was also an independent inventor, working part time in his own laboratory [Sperling, 1987]. 

In 1859, the French scientist Gaston Plants (1834-1889) made the first prototype of a lead acid rechargeable battery. An alkaline nickel-cadmium rechargeable battery was developed in 1899 by the Swedish engineer W. Jungner (1869-1924) and an alkaline nickel-iron battery was developed two years later by the well-known American inventor Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931). Up to the seventh decade of the nineteenth century, electrochemical batteries remained the only sources of electrical current and power. 

Thomas A. Edison built the first prototype of his "speaking machine" in 1877. At first, Edison did not think his phonograph would record music. But after he tested the prototype and used his results to make changes, his design was successful. Eventually, people heard the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" coming from Edison s machine. 

Thomas A. Edison was granted his first pat- was interested in purchasing this machine. ... 

Thomas A. Edison invents the electric light bulb. 

Lithium has been recognized to be attractive as an anode material for nearly a century. There is an apocryphal story that a vial of lithium metal was found on the desk of Thomas A. Edison at the time of his death in 1931. Lithium metal possesses the following characteristics which are desirable for battery use ... 

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Thomas A. Edison Papers http //edison.rutgers. edu/ (accessed January 30, 2005). The Thomas A. Edison Papers is a documentary editing project sponsored by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and the New Jersey Historical Commission. Here one can view 180,000 document images, search a database of 121,000 document records and 19,250 names or keyword search 4,000 volume-and-folder descriptions (from Web page). 

W. F. Libby, Space Science, Thomas A. Edison Foundation Educ. Conf., Nth, Portland, Oregon, (December 1969) Chemistry in Space (R. F. Landel and A. Rembaum, eds.), p. 1. American Elsevier, New York, 1972. 

Rechargeable secondary alkaline cells are connected with two famous names Thomas A. Edison and Valdemar Jungner. While Edison was the inventor of the nickeliron battery, Jungner tried to improve the secondary alkaline battery by using cadmium for the negative electrode. The different constructions are described in detail in Chapter 1, Sec. 1.8.2, and Chapter 7, Sec. 7.3. 

Thomas A. Edison s firm normally purchased phenolic resins to manufacture his phonograph records, but the war caught his suppliers short, and Edison undertook the production of phenol, one of the important intermediates for dyes and pharmaceuticals. In a crash construction program, Edison built a plant and assembled the equipment to begin operations in 1915. As one of the first new manufacturers of phenol, Edison found a ready market for excess production in the early years of the war, including... 

Thomas A. Edison to head its new Naval Consulting Board,... 

Thomas A. Edison invented a practical incandescent bulb and discovered that lamps could be connected in parallel, permitting one or more to be turned off without disconnecting the whole system. 

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