Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Edison’s father, Samuel, was a shingle maker and land speculator, while his mother, Nancy, kept house and taught young Edison at home.

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931 ... When they corrected it, the voice was not that of a young girl – it was a baritone voice and actually the voice of Scott de Martinville himself.

Nebogipfel, though supposedly a scientist and F.R.S., is a strange character to have been produced by the keen young student who had studied under Huxley ... The continuity among the different ...

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 ...

10, 1914, a massive explosion erupted in West Orange, New Jersey. Ten buildings in legendary inventor Thomas Edison's plant, which comprised more than half of the site, were engulfed in flames.

A mother and daughter were in the back of an office building located on Lincoln Highway in Edison when a man smashed the ...

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Thomas Edison (Norb Nowak) recounts an incident from his childhood as Warren Harding (Benjamin Foreman), left, and Henry Ford ...

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).

On Oct. 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American to become a saint.