Edison

[ed-uh-suhn]

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noun

Thomas Alva 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
a township in central New Jersey.

Edison

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noun

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

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.

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On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.

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In briefs filed before Wednesday’s oral arguments, the government lawyers sided with those from the state’s three big for-profit electric utilities — Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric.

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Edison agreed to pay the settlement within 60 days of the effective date of the agreement, which was May 14, without admitting wrongdoing or fault.

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He confirmed that there were still late-season snowstorms passing through the region, but noted that Huntington and Edison lakes’ elevation is low enough that precipitation likely came down as rain.

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If approved, the rate hike would mean an $18 average increase in monthly electrical bills for Edison’s 15 million customers.

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