When people think of Thomas Edison, they often picture a glowing light bulb and a man who seemed to invent endlessly. What is ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

Mimicking Edison’s experimental setup, Eddy attached the light bulb to a 110-volt direct current electricity source. He allowed it to flow for 20 seconds, as bouts of heating longer than that can form ...

The Grammy Awards say Billings and his crew in Ridgway, Colorado, handmake each trophy (roughly 600 to 800 are needed ...

Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained A secret FBI bust nabbed an alleged drug lord—and rocked ties with Mexico Minneapolis restaurant owner opened her ...

Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...

A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...

The Edison Festival of Light began in February 1938 as a way to honor Fort Myers' most famous winter resident, Thomas Edison. Eighty eight years later, the festival is back and still going strong.

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...