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 Edison was Henry Ford's hero. In 1896, shortly after building his quadricycle, Henry Ford had the chance to meet the famous inventor at a convention in New York. Edison, who was ...

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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 ...

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.

A new treatment for the rare disease Friedreich's ataxia has been given 'fast track' status by the FDA. Edison's EPI-743 is being developed for a range of paediatric and adult mitochondrial ...

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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).