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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Millie Edison's life experiences include teaching writing in colleges; writing scripts and producing TV for education, PBS, and the technical field; speaking and conducting workshops; serving as TV instructor and host; and being a college administrator.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Edison's Limited Partners include pension funds, banks, insurance companies, and industrial corporations.
Con Edison's Dennis Jawor, former Manhattan Chamber of Commerce President and an active board member for over 7 years, began running the fairs in 1992.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Both men were legends, and yet, today Tesla is almost forgotton, mainly due to Edison's efforts to delete Tesla from history and mock his name.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Thomas Edison is featured on the front of the box and a rare movie is included on the CD of Thomas Edison explaining how he invented the phonograph and motion picture camera.
With Thomas Edison's production of a voice recording on tin foil in 1877, a revolution began in the way music was heard and sold.
It was this aspiration to innovation that inspired Borden to dub the group Menlo, which is a reference to Thomas Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey (we thought it was a tribute to Shorewood's leafiest boulevard.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Mainly as a result of Edison's invention of recorded sound at the end of the 19th century, all creative musicians of the 20th century have immersed themselves in the music of other cultures and traditions, forging new styles from their experience.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Since Ponce de Leon's first visit in 1513 and Thomas Edison's 1886 arrival in Fort Myers, the pace of development has quickened; other areas of Lee County have grown rapidly as well.
Between Ponce de Leon's first visit to the area in 1513 and Thomas Edison's 1886 arrival with his bride, the area developed slowly.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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There was an evolution of analog media from primitive magnetic recording disks to Edison's single-sided phonograph technology and then into two-sided analog records.
The transaction precipitated a titanic power struggle between Edison's direct-current systems and the Tesla-Westinghouse alternating-current approach, which eventually won out.
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