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- Thomas Edison Asleep at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Snapshot by Henry Ford, 1896 - Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- 1896
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Thomas Edison Asleep at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Snapshot by Henry Ford, 1896
Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- Paper Horseshoe Filament Lamp Used at New Year's Eve Demonstration of the Edison Lighting System, 1879 - Thomas Edison created the first practical incandescent lamp in October 1879. As the news spread the public clamored to view this achievement. On New Year's Eve, thousands streamed into Menlo Park to see the first public display of Edison's electric light. Dozens of lights, like this surviving example, lit up the homes, buildings and streets around Menlo Park and Edison's laboratory.
- December 31, 1879
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Paper Horseshoe Filament Lamp Used at New Year's Eve Demonstration of the Edison Lighting System, 1879
Thomas Edison created the first practical incandescent lamp in October 1879. As the news spread the public clamored to view this achievement. On New Year's Eve, thousands streamed into Menlo Park to see the first public display of Edison's electric light. Dozens of lights, like this surviving example, lit up the homes, buildings and streets around Menlo Park and Edison's laboratory.
- Charles Steinmetz and Thomas Edison at 1911 Convention of Edison Illuminating Companies, Thousand Islands, New York - By 1911, Charles Steinmetz was a well-known leader in the electrical engineering field. He directed the Consulting Engineering Department at General Electric, a company that had its roots in Thomas Edison's early electric light manufacturing companies. Though the press exaggerated the relationship between these two "wizards" of science, Edison and Steinmetz admired one another's work and conducted some joint research.
- 1911
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Charles Steinmetz and Thomas Edison at 1911 Convention of Edison Illuminating Companies, Thousand Islands, New York
By 1911, Charles Steinmetz was a well-known leader in the electrical engineering field. He directed the Consulting Engineering Department at General Electric, a company that had its roots in Thomas Edison's early electric light manufacturing companies. Though the press exaggerated the relationship between these two "wizards" of science, Edison and Steinmetz admired one another's work and conducted some joint research.
- Thomas Edison Asleep at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Snapshot by Henry Ford, 1896 - Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- 1896
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Thomas Edison Asleep at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Snapshot by Henry Ford, 1896
Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- Thomas Edison Asleep at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Snapshot by Henry Ford, 1896 - Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- 1896
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Thomas Edison Asleep at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Snapshot by Henry Ford, 1896
Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- Edison Bamboo Filament Lamp, 1880 -
- 1880
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Edison Bamboo Filament Lamp, 1880
- Charles Steinmetz and Thomas Edison at 1911 Convention of Edison Illuminating Companies, Thousand Islands, New York - By 1911, Charles Steinmetz was a well-known leader in the electrical engineering field. He directed the Consulting Engineering Department at General Electric, a company that had its roots in Thomas Edison's early electric light manufacturing companies. Though the press exaggerated the relationship between these two "wizards" of science, Edison and Steinmetz admired one another's work and conducted some joint research.
- 1911
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Charles Steinmetz and Thomas Edison at 1911 Convention of Edison Illuminating Companies, Thousand Islands, New York
By 1911, Charles Steinmetz was a well-known leader in the electrical engineering field. He directed the Consulting Engineering Department at General Electric, a company that had its roots in Thomas Edison's early electric light manufacturing companies. Though the press exaggerated the relationship between these two "wizards" of science, Edison and Steinmetz admired one another's work and conducted some joint research.
- Snapshot by Henry Ford of Thomas Edison outside the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York, 1896 - Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.
- 1896
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Snapshot by Henry Ford of Thomas Edison outside the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York, 1896
Henry Ford attended the 1896 meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies in Brooklyn, New York, with camera in tow. During the convention, Ford captured several candid shots of his boyhood hero, Thomas Edison. He also had a personal encounter with Edison at a banquet -- a brief but encouraging landmark in the ambitious engineer's life.