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 ...

But are there really as many haunted dolls as people say? One of Thomas Edison’s lesser-known inventions was a “talking doll” which used a phonograph to creepily mimic human speech.

Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world's most famous inventors, Thomas Edison. Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development ...

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was an incredible American inventor and entrepreneur, who revolutionized the world with his inventions such as the phonograph, light bulb, motion pictures, and R&D labs ...

An early movie projector created by C. Francis Jenkins landed the inventor a prestigious Franklin Institute award and caused ...

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 ...

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent electric lamp by Thomas A. Edison, the Harvard Engineering Society will hold a meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his day. In this silent film, they capture the prolific inventor discussing new ideas with ...

From the inventor's New Jersey film studio, the delight of cats doing things on film was discovered early in 1894 Ouija Board: The Mysterious Origins of a Cultural Obsession (03:19) Apollo 11 ...

While names like Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison dominate the pages of technological history, not ...

but it is also home to a relatively unknown monument dedicated to Thomas Edison (1847-1931). To commemorate the achievements of the great American inventor, a flower-offering ceremony was held at ...