Music journalist Jonathan Scott has written a book about the history of audio ... Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often credited with inventing audio recording, he wasn't the first to ...

However, the documentation of his occult invention was nearly lost, as it was omitted from English-language editions of his book "Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison," which was ...

A new book examines the evolution of the American ... a few minutes at a time Tara Isabella Burton The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a ...

But at Thomas Edison’s legendary “innovation factory” in Menlo Park, New Jersey, creativity was mostly accompanied by mess and fart jokes. The 1989 book Working at Inventing described the ...

Thomas Edison is known for inventing lots of stuff. Among them — an early sandwich grill. A sandwich grill consists of two metal plates that are hinged together. The plates get hot when the ...

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio ... provided him with a layover during which he would visit the city’s libraries to read scientific books and periodicals. Edison was allowed to keep a chemistry ...