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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

At the Main Building, ticket-holders encountered their first telephone, courtesy of the rising young inventor Alexander ...

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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The North East STEM Foundation (NESF) has raised more than £40,000 at its annual fundraising dinner to support young people across the region in accessing education in science, technology, engineering ...

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

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