We accredit the invention of the electric light to Edison.

我们把电灯的发明归迪生。

It's almost inconceivable to write a prehistory of music because Edison invents the phonograph in 1877 and prior to that, we have no record of any sound.

写一部音乐史前史几乎是不可思议的，因为迪生1877年发明了留声机，那之前，我们没有任何声音记录。

Edison founded it by bringing together his electricity companies, and over the decades, General Electric grew into a massive business conglomerate dominating aviation, TV, appliances, finances, healthcare.

迪生他的电力公司联合起来创办了通用电气公司，并且过去的几十年里，通用电气发展成为一个庞大的商业集团，航空、电视、家电、金融和医疗领域占据主导地位。

Edison started his own laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey.

迪生新泽西的门洛帕克建立了自己的实验室。

ShaKenya Edison is assistant superintendent with the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

沙肯尼亚·迪生是圣巴巴拉联合学区的助理校长。

It is said that Edison invented the light.

据说是迪生发明了电灯。

Monica Bentley is the administrator for Edison Academy.

莫妮卡·宾利是迪生学院的管理者。

But I think I'm more of an Edison than a Tesla.

我觉得自己更像迪生而不是特斯拉。

Edison was one of the greatest inventors of the twentieth century.

爰迪生是20世纪伟大的发明家之一。

He's got cute Nanahoshi and Edison and Silphy with him.

他和可的娜娜美、迪生以及希尔菲一起。

Edison was more interested in the sale of Kinetoscopes (for roughly $1,000 apiece) to these parlors than in the films that would be run in them (which cost approximately $10 to $15 each).

迪生更感兴趣活动电影放映机（每台大约1000美元）的销售量而不是其中播放的胶片（每个大约花费10到15美元）。

Although by no means was he made a partner on that first day he was however given a role and slowly over the years did end up becoming Edison's business partner and an exceptionally wealthy man.

虽然他并没有第一天成为迪生的合伙人，但也给了他一定的职责，多年来慢慢地成长，他最终成为迪生的商业伙伴，也成为了极其富有的人。

Morgan and Edison get right to work, transforming a building in Lower Manhattan into the world's first central power station, a high-tech wonder filled with massive generators capable of lighting thousands of homes.

摩根和迪生立刻开始行动 曼哈顿下城的一座建筑改造成世界第一座中央发电站 这是一项充满发电机的高科技奇迹 能够为数以千计的家庭提供照明。

Yeah, they did, but with a bit of twist. A few years ago some researchers in Paris recruited volunteers to try this. They replaced Edison's ball with a water bottle.

对，他们照做了，不过有些调整。几年前，法国巴黎的一些研究人员招募了一些志愿者来进行尝试。他们把迪生的球换成了水瓶。

In school, students memorize the dates of major inventions, along with the names of the people who made them-Edison, light bulb, 1879; Wright brothers, airplane, 1903.

学校里的学生记住重大发明的日期以及这些发明者的姓名——迪生，电灯泡，1879年; 莱特兄弟，飞机，1903年。

It is no coincidence that Edison, by far the most creative and productive scientific genius of all time. He patented 1097 patents in his career.

迪生是史上最富创造力最多产的科学家这并不是巧合，他一生申请了1097项专利。

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), a trade group, warns that distributed generation could do to energy companies what the internet did to newspapers.

贸易集团迪生电力协会警告称，分散发电对能源公司的冲击就如同互联网对新闻报纸产业的冲击一样。

The invention of the lightbulb was a process that took nearly a century — and it didn't begin with Edison.

灯泡的发明是一个历时近一个世纪的过程——而且它并不是从迪生开始的。

57% of women voted for Biden, compared to 42% for President Donald Trump, according to exit polls by Edison research.

根据迪生研究公司的选后民调，57%的女性投票给了拜登，42%的女性投票给了唐纳德·特朗普总统。

Which got me thinking, how many of us are too much like Monet instead of Mozart, Edison or even Corden?

这让我开始思考，我们中有多少人太像莫奈，而不是莫扎特、迪生，甚至柯登？