We accredit the invention of the electric light to Edison.

我们把电灯发明归功于爱迪生。

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.

写一部音乐史前史乎是不可思议，因为爱迪生在1877年发明了留声机，在那之前，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.

爱迪生将他电力公司联合起来创办了通用电气公司，并且在过去年里，通用电气发展成为一个庞商业集团，在航空、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.

爱迪生在新泽西门洛帕克建立了自己实验室。

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

沙肯尼·爱迪生是圣巴巴拉联合学区助理校长。

Monica Bentley is the administrator for Edison Academy.

莫妮卡·宾利是爱迪生学院管理者。

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

我觉得自己更像爱迪生而不是特斯拉。

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

爰迪生是20世纪发明家之一。

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

他和可爱娜娜美、爱迪生以及希尔菲在一起。

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).

爱迪生更感兴趣于活动电影放映机（每台约1000美元）销售量而不是将要在其中播放胶片（每个约花费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.

虽然他并没有在第一天成为爱迪生合伙人，但也给了他一定职责，多年来慢慢地成长，他最终成为爱迪生商业伙伴，也成为了极其富有人。

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.

摩根和爱迪生立刻开始行动 将曼哈顿下城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高科技奇迹 能够为数以千计家庭提供照明。

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。年前，法国巴黎一些研究人员招募了一些志愿者来进行尝试。他们把爱迪生球换成了水瓶。

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.

学校里学生要记住重发明日期以及这些发明者姓名——爱迪生，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.

爱迪生是史上最富创造力最多产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.

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

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

灯泡发明是一个历时近一个世纪过程——而且它并不是从爱迪生开始。

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

根据爱迪生研究公司选后民调，57%女性投票给了拜登，42%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、爱迪生，甚至柯登？

But Edison didn't care. He went ahead and did any of the secretly recorded his marching band in the parade.

但爱迪生不管那么多，先一步录取了游行时演奏进行曲。