With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

With an industrial look and durable design, the modern Edison light bulb is a popular choice when it comes to lighting spaces in the home, whether adorning a bathroom vanity, illuminating a kitchen or ...

That isn’t a direct quote from Thomas Alva Edison, legendary inventor of the incandescent light bulb. But to Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, a historical novel released last month, ...

EDISON – This summer, when the monument to Thomas Alva Edison on Christie Street reopens after two years of renovations, a small but symbolically significant change will take place. The 14-foot-tall ...

DALLAS – Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs that he perfected sold for more than $60,000 at auction on Saturday. The keys sold for ...

The US-born inventor, from Milan, Ohio, is credited as one of history's leading businessmen and innovators. Aside from the incandescent light bulb, he created the first device that could record sound ...

WITH energy prices on the rise, homeowners are looking for ways to control their bills. And one of the first swaps they are making is simple: they are updating their light bulbs. It took almost 80 ...

Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which brought ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...