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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...