Edison (disambiguation) explained

Thomas Edison (1847–1931) was an American inventor and businessman.

Edison may also refer to:

• Edison (name), including people with the name

Places

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Edison Awards, a technological prize in the United States
• Edison (crater), a lunar crater

See also

• Edison Bridge (disambiguation), various locations