List of people who worked for Thomas Edison

The following is a list of people who worked for Thomas Edison.

• Edward Goodrich Acheson – chemist, worked at Menlo Park 1880–1884
• William Symes Andrews – started at the Menlo Park machine shop 1879^[1]
• Charles Batchelor – "chief experimental assistant"
• John I. Beggs – manager of Edison Illuminating Company in New York, 1886
• William Kennedy Dickson – joined Menlo Park in 1883, worked on the motion picture camera
• Justus B. Entz – joined Edison Machine Works in 1887
• Reginald Fessenden – worked at the Edison Machine Works in 1886
• Henry Ford – engineer Edison Illuminating Company Detroit, Michigan, 1891–1899
• William Joseph Hammer – started as laboratory assistant Menlo Park in 1879
• Miller Reese Hutchison – inventor of hearing aid
• Edward Hibberd Johnson – started in 1909, chief engineer at West Orange laboratory 1912–1918
• Samuel Insull – started in 1881, rose to become VP of General Electric (1892) then President of Chicago Edison^[2]
• Kunihiko Iwadare – joined Edison Machine Works in 1887
• Francis Jehl – laboratory assistant Menlo Park 1879–1882
• Arthur E. Kennelly – engineer, experimentalist at West Orange laboratory 1887–1894
• John Kruesi – started 1872, was head machinist, at Newark, Menlo Park, Edison Machine Works
• Lewis Howard Latimer – hired 1884 as a draftsman, continued working for General Electric
• John W. Lieb – worked at the Edison Machine Works in 1881
• Thomas Commerford Martin – electrical engineer, worked at Menlo Park 1877–1879
• George F. Morrison – started at Edison Lamp Works 1882
• Edwin Stanton Porter – joined the Edison Manufacturing Company 1899
• Frank J. Sprague – joined Menlo Park 1883, became known as the "Father of Electric Traction".
• Nikola Tesla – electrical engineer and inventor, worked at the Edison Machine Works in 1884
• Francis Robbins Upton – mathematician/physicist, joined Menlo Park 1878
• Theo Wangemann – personal assistant to Edison
• John Birkinbine - mining technician that developed re-refining technique in 1889 ^[3]
• Alfred O'Tate ^[4]
• Norman Raff^[4]
• Frank Gammon^[4]
• Andrew and Edwin Holland, brothers^[4]