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 ...

However, the documentation of his occult invention was nearly lost, as it was omitted from English-language editions of his book "Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison," which was ...

In connexion with the centenary of these events, a list of twelve of the inventions that have done ... the cinema and the gramophone, Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); the commercial steamboat ...

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph ...