Edison

Edison is the last name of Thomas Edison (1847–1931), an American inventor.

Edison may also refer to:

Thomas Edison legacies

• Edison Bridge (disambiguation), various locations
• Edison effect, thermionic emission discovered by Edison
• Thomas Edison National Historical Park, site of Edison's home in West Orange, New Jersey
• Edison Records, record label company founded by Edison

• Edison Studios, pioneering film company owned by Edison
• Edison (crater), on the Moon
• Edisonian approach, an approach of trial and error discovery used by Edison
• Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum, site of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory
• Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace, in Milan, Ohio
• USS Edison (DD-439), a United States destroyer, named after Edison
• Edison plug, a common name for the NEMA 5-15 electrical connector
• Edison screw, a system of light bulb connectors developed by Edison
• Electric utility companies
  • Edison Illuminating Company
  • Commonwealth Edison, Chicago
  • Consolidated Edison, New York
  • Southern California Edison, California

Education

• Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, New York
• Thomas A. Edison High School (New York City), Jamaica, New York
• Thomas A. Edison Central Sixth Middle School (New Jersey), West Orange, New Jersey
• Edison High School (New Jersey), Edison, New Jersey
• Edison High School, Hunting Beach, California
• Edison School, a for-profit company that runs public schools in the United Kingdom
• Edison Tech Center, interactive learning center in Schenectady, New York

People

• Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of Thomas Edison, and Governor of New Jersey
• Sweets Edison (1915–1999), American jazz musician
• Edison Denisov (1929–1996), Russian composer
• Edison James (born 1943), former prime minister of Dominica
• Édison Méndez (born 1979), Ecuadoran football midfielder
• Edison Chen (born 1980), popular Hong Kong teen idol
• Edison Reynoso (born 1975), Dominican baseball player
• Granville Woods (1856–1910), American inventor, often referred to as "The Black Edison"

Places in the United States named after Edison

• Edison, California
• Edison, Georgia
• Edison, Nebraska
• Edison, New Jersey
• Edison, Ohio
• Edison, Washington
• Edison Park, Chicago

Other uses

• The Edison, Los Angeles nightclub
• Edison, an Altoona, Pennsylvania based rock band
• Edison, a former name of the band Edison Glass
• Edison Carter, character in the television show Max Headroom
• Edison (film), a 2005 film directed by David J. Burke
• Edison Award, a music award in the Netherlands
• Edison S.p.A., an Italian energy company
• Edison Lighthouse, a 70s rock band featuring Tony Burrows
• Edison (software), a PC energy monitoring application by Verdiem Corporation
• Edison (software system), a information system on genuine and fraudulent identity documents
• Edison (train), a passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad
• A train operated as part of the Clocker (Amtrak) service
• Edison, a vehicle-to-grid research project in Denmark.
• Edison (programming language), a concurrent programming language designed by Per Brinch Hansen.