Thomas Edison of the Edison patent to charge a more reasonable rate for the use of the Edison patent rights and lowering the price of the electric lamp. On October 8, 1883, the US patent office ruled that Edison's patent was based on the work of William E. Sawyer and was, therefore, invalid. Litigation continued for nearly six years, until October 6, 1889, when a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid. To avoid a possible court battle with Joseph Swan, whose British patent had been awarded a year before Edison's,
An Englishman in New York (film) An Englishman in New York (film) An Englishman in New York is a 2009 biographical film that chronicles the years gay English writer Quentin Crisp spent in New York City, starring John Hurt reprising his role as Crisp from "The Naked Civil Servant" (1975). The film takes its title from "Englishman in New York", a song about Crisp written by Sting for the 1987 album "...Nothing Like the Sun". The film follows Quentin Crisp’s move in the late 1970s from London to New York City, where he was embraced by celebrities and artists. Crisp becomes a local, and then more