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 ...

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 ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then ...

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 ...