Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the ... where telegraph company officers encouraged the development of new technologies. While his inventions at first focused on ...

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

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

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... affordable and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did ...

Born 166 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime. Although the man from Milton ...

You probably learned in school that Thomas Edison was the first ... but he wasn’t the first to deliberately record. That honor goes to a French inventor named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

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

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 ...

Burkus is not the first to challenge the lone creator ... the commercialization of a product more than its actual invention. Thomas Edison, in other words, is not so much the man behind the ...