This movie is about my father who gave up on his dream of becoming an actor when he was young. This is a movie that my daughter made in hopes of making her dreams come true once again.

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 ...

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 ...

Maxwell Edison is in fact the much sought after serial killer known as 'The Hammer Murderer’. He plans a date to go to the movies with Joan, but when he arrives to pick her up, it becomes clear ...

Paul Muni got an Oscar for playing Pasteur, Leslie Howard looked furrowed and noble inventing the Spitfire, but Micky Rooney as the young Thomas Edison still seems an odd bid of casting.

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 ...

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.

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

Throughout Jason Reitman’s new movie “Saturday Night,” a young ... “Did anyone ask Thomas Edison what the lightbulb was before he harnessed electricity?” he says in another, to dubious ...

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 ...

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