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.

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- This semi-tropical little city where Thomas A. Edison made his winter home was in deep mourning today at news of the inventor's death in West Orange. It was here that Edison ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Nearly all the teens we’ve interviewed have expressed a complicated relationship with social media. It’s a place of discovery ...