Edison

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Edison is the last name of a famous United States inventor:

• Thomas Edison

Other people known by the name Edison:

• Charles Edison – son of Thomas Edison and Governor of New Jersey
• Edison Chen – popular Hong Kong teen idol
• Edison Carter, character in the television show Max Headroom

A number of Schools share some part of Thomas Alva Edison in their name.

• Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High School, Jamaica, New York
• Edison High School, Huntington Beach

Edison Schools is the name of a company in the United States running public schools for profit:

• Edison Schools

Edison is the name of some places in the United States of America. These have been named after Thomas Edison :

• Edison, Georgia
• Edison, New Jersey

Edison is also a name of a 2005 film directed by David J. Burke.

• Edison (movie)

Terms deriving from Thomas Edison:

• Edison effect – thermionic emission discovered by Edison
• Edison Records – record label company founded by Edison
• Edisonian approach – an approach of trial and error discovery used by Edison