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 ...

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

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 question of who invented television is a complicated one. It can’t really be tied to one person. Several people in several countries were working on the same thing at the same time.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. Thomas Edison’s many inventions paved the way for how we experience modern life, from indoor lighting to watching movies. But how he organized his ...