Edison (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Thomas Edison (1847–1931) was an American inventor and businessman.
Edison may also refer to:
- Edison (name), including people with the name
Places
[edit]- Edison, California, USA
- Edison, Georgia, USA
- Edison, Nebraska, USA
- Edison, New Jersey, USA
- Edison, Ohio, USA
- Edison, Washington (state), USA
- Edison, West Virginia, USA
- Edison Township, Swift County, Minnesota, USA
- Edison Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Facilities and structures
[edit]- Edison State Park, the site of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory
- Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum, Edison, New Jersey
- Edison (Monterrey Metro), Monterrey, Mexico
- The Edison, a Los Angeles nightclub
Education
[edit]- Edison High School (New Jersey), Edison, New Jersey
- Edison Tech Center, interactive learning center in Schenectady, New York
- Thomas Edison State University, Trenton, New Jersey
Companies and organizations
[edit]- Electrical utility, the power company, sometimes called an "Edison"
- Consolidated Edison, several different Edisons of New York City combined, an electrical utility
- Commonwealth Edison, an electric company in Illinois
- Edison S.p.A., an Italian energy company
- Southern California Edison, an electrical utility serving Southern California
- Edison International, its parent company
- Edison General Electric, founded by Thomas Edison
- Edison Machine Works, founded by Thomas Edison
- Edison Records, record label company founded by Edison
- Edison Studios, pioneering film company owned by Edison
Arts, entertainment, media
[edit]- Edison, an audio editing plug-in for FL Studio
- Edison (poem), a 1927 epic poem by Vítězslav Nezval
- Edison Awards (India), Tamil film industry awards
- Edison (film), a 2005 film directed by David J. Burke
- Edison Award, a music award in the Netherlands
- Edison, a later name of the band Edison Lighthouse
- Edison Glass or Edison, a band
Computing
[edit]- Edison (programming language)
- Edison (software), a PC energy monitoring application by Verdiem Corporation
- Intel Edison, a tiny dual-core computer offered as a development system
Transportation and vehicles
[edit]- USS Edison (DD-439), a United States destroyer
- Edison, a train operated as part of the Clocker service
- Edison, a vehicle-to-grid research project in Denmark
Other uses
[edit]- Edison Awards, a technological prize in the United States
- Edison (crater), a lunar crater
See also
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