The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...

Today, we celebrate our Nation’s most prolific inventor and a man who never stopped pushing the spirit of American innovation ...

Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally produced graphene over a century before it was formally identified, while developing his first light ...

What do Thomas Edison and Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University’s James Tour, it could be ...

A quote of the day highlights a powerful line of wisdom selected daily to inspire action, teach lessons, or prompt reflection. Daily quotes reset mindsets amid stress, spark motivation during slumps, ...

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.

Inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated his electric incandescent lights in public. He illuminated about 100 bulbs in and around his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison used a carbonized bamboo ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with recording the first human sound. In reality, that achievement belongs to a French inventor named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. His device captured sound ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an ...

WASHINGTON — White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Thomas Hager discussed Henry Ford’s early years, including his upbringing on a Michigan farm, his first job at Thomas Edison’s electric ...