Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

Asked to evaluate his son's abilities as an intellectual, the elder Edison said that he was, “absolutely illiterate, ...

Thomas Edison was the king of invention. He developed many innovations in the fields of electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures, all of which had a ...

It is generally assumed that Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp was the product of inspired tinkering. Actually it was but one element in a much deeper invention: an entire system of electric lighting ...

The light bulbs sending their beams streaming from the windows of the Old Manse also, of course, highlight Wells’s engagement with perhaps the best known of Thomas Edison’s inventions, one heavily ...

A history of the Edison Company the pioneering film production company begun by Thomas A Edison Included are more than 140 complete films produced by the company between 1891 and 1918 along with ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

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The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

The Trump administration had an opportunity to spark a resurgence in American innovation through intellectual property reform ...

the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time Tara Isabella Burton The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as ...