Tag: Thomas Edison

• This Day in Pop Culture for May 13

  

  1898: Edison Sues Over New Technology Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph, sued the American Mutoscope Company on this day in 1898. It turns out that Edison had entrusted his assistant, W.L.K. Dickson with a new invention, the Vitascope in which Dickson helped Edison’s competitors develop a similar machine, the Mutoscope.…

  Jeffrey Totey

  May 13, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  Fraiser, May 13, NBC, The Pajama Game, Thomas Edison

• This Day in Pop Culture for April 14

  

  It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot at the theatre and in 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg!

  Jeffrey Totey

  April 14, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  Abraham Lincoln, April 14, Barbra Streisand, John Steinbeck, Katharine Hepburn, Oscars, Thomas Edison, Titanic

• This Day in Pop Culture for January 27

  

  It happened on this day in 1880 when singer Michael Jackson got burned while filming a Pepsi commercial.

  Jeffrey Totey

  January 27, 2020

  This Day in Pop Culture

  January 27, Michael Jackson, Pepsi, Thomas Edison