Thomas Edison was a renowned scientist, inventor, and businessman who created over 100 devices in his lifetime. He is perhaps ...

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Inventor Thomas Edison's life was about more than just the light bulb. Find out more about this 20th-century trailblazer.

Around the same time across the Atlantic, Thomas Edison was busy working on incandescent light bulbs. Incandescent light bulbs work by running current through a material, called the filament ...

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 ...

A version of this article originally appeared on Most’s blog in 2015. Edison plays an important role in “The Race Underground.” He’s a brief mentor to a key character, Frank Julian ...

The column "Americans being duped by the wind lobby" (Commentary, Oct. 13) cites exceedingly outdated data as it references ...

In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio. He was testing a new device called the kinetograph, an electrically powered camera capable of capturing motion.

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This reminds me of a time when Thomas Edison, a proponent of DC power distribution, needed to come up with any kind of argument that would stick in order scare people away from the AC power ...

YAWATA, Kyoto Prefecture--Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine here is a government-designated national treasure, but it is also home to a relatively unknown monument dedicated to Thomas Edison (1847-1931).