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Edison

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Edison, township (1990 pop. 88,680), Middlesex co., NE N.J., inc. 1870 as Raritan Township, renamed 1954. Edison's varied manufactures include light trucks, chemicals, metal products, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, and instruments. Raritan Center is the largest industrial park east of the Mississippi. Menlo Park Menlo Park.

1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there.

2 Uninc.
..... Click the link for more information. , the former site of Thomas A. Edison Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847–1931, American inventor, b. Milan, Ohio. A genius in the practical application of scientific principles, Edison was one of the greatest and most productive inventors of his time, but his formal schooling was limited to three months in
..... Click the link for more information. 's laboratories, now is a residential community in the township.
Edison
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
1.Edison - (Named after the American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931))

A simplified Pascal by Per Brinch Hansen with modules and concurrency (cobegin/coend).

["Edison - A Multiprocessor Language", P. Brinch Hansen, CS Dept, USC, Sep 1980].

["Programming a Personal Computer", Brinch Hansen, P-H 1977].
2.Edison - A language which adds an OPS5-like rete-based production system system to C. It is implemented as a C preprocessor.

["Edison, A Unix and C Friendly Rete Based Production System", B. Thirion, SIGPLAN Notices 27(1):75-84 (Jan 1992)].


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He was scarcely seated in his managerial chair, when the Western Union threw the entire Bell army into confusion by launching the Edison transmitter.
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He was Caesar and Napoleon, Washington and Lincoln, Grant and Edison and Shakespeare.
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I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door.
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