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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ten buildings in legendary inventor Thomas Edison's plant, which comprised more than half of the site, were engulfed in flames. Between six and eight fire departments rushed to the scene ...

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

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On the first drive, Wright threw 11 yards to Al Miller on third-and-10, then found Cooper McAtee for 23 yards. Defensive ...

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