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Edison
[ ed-uh-suhn ]
noun
- Thomas Al·va [al, -v, uh], 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- a township in central New Jersey.
Edison
/ ˈɛɪə /
noun
- EdisonThomas Alva18471931MUSTECHNOLOGY: inventor Thomas Alva. 1847–1931, US inventor. He patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp, the microphone, and the kinetoscope
Edison
/ ĕ′ĭ-ə /
- American inventor and physicist who took out more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime. His inventions include the telegraph (1869), microphone (1877), and light bulb (1879). He also designed the first power plant (1881–82), making possible the widespread distribution of electricity. During World War I, Edison worked on a number of military devices, including flamethrowers, periscopes, and torpedoes.
Example Sentences
Calderon worked for Southern California Edison and its parent company, Edison International, for 25 years before she was elected in 2020.
Southern California Edison and the state’s two other big for-profit utilities have long tried to reduce the energy credits that incentivized Californians to invest in the solar panels.
A group of planners, designers, and field technicians at Southern California Edison on Thursday filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.
Thomas is now an assistant coach at Edison.
Edison has asked for an increase of more than 2%, which it said was needed to bolster Wall Street’s view of its financial health after the Los Angeles wildfires.
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