Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

But are there really as many haunted dolls as people say? One of Thomas Edison’s lesser-known inventions was a “talking doll” which used a phonograph to creepily mimic human speech.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was an incredible American inventor and entrepreneur, who revolutionized the world with his inventions such as the phonograph, light bulb, motion pictures, and R&D labs ...

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

This article was originally published with the title “ The Invention of the Electric Light ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5 (November 1959), p. 98 doi:10.1038 ...

An important inventor and innovator, the Scottish-born Gair was instrumental in the development of the East River waterfront ...

Fremont: The world is fuelled by new inventions which change the way we are. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, the Wright brothers invented the airplane, and Graham Bell invented the telephone, ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

From the inventor's New Jersey film studio, the delight of cats doing things on film was discovered early in 1894 Ouija Board: The Mysterious Origins of a Cultural Obsession (03:19) Apollo 11 ...