Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the ... where telegraph company officers encouraged the development of new technologies. While his inventions at first focused on ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... affordable and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Invention of the Electric Light ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5 (November 1959), p. 98 doi:10.1038 ...

Thomas Edison noticed this first in 1883. While fiddling with lightbulbs ... He was not a scientist but an inventor, a tinkerer. This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the ...

National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA): A few facts about the origin of electric Christmas lights - Information ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931 ... I was sitting there realising I am the first person to get to listen to somebody singing before the outbreak of the American Civil War – the ...

Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often credited with inventing audio recording, he wasn't the first to do it ... aren't we? The invention of the LP in 1949, gave us this - sort of the ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...