The company's assets and operations were transferred to his personal estate / corporation of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. a decade later in 1911.

[2] From April 1894 to June 1908, William E. Gilmore was vice-president and general manager of the Edison Manufacturing Company.

He took over from Alfred O. Tate and was succeeded by patent lawyer Frank Dyer.

[4] Edison's first moviemaking studio—and also the world's first—was the "Black Maria" in West Orange, New Jersey, where production of Kinetoscope films began in early 1893.

Edison was also distracted by other enterprises including storage electric batteries, iron ore and cement, which competed for his financial resources and led to occasional loss of focus and setting of priorities.