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 ...

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

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Fremont: The world is fuelled by new inventions which change the way we are. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, the Wright brothers invented the airplane, and Graham Bell invented the telephone, ...

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 ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- This semi-tropical little city where Thomas A. Edison made his winter home was in deep mourning today at news of the inventor's death in West Orange. It was here that Edison ...

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 ...

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