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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the world’s first practical light bulb and ... he showed off his new invention with “a live outdoor display with dozens of incandescent lamps strung ...

Thomas Edison ... on display. Edison's contribution to the world of grilled sandwiches was entirely forgotten by the time Breville — which claims to have invented the world's first toasted ...

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 ...

In 1888 in New York City, the great inventor Thomas Edison and his British assistant ... pouring out of the Lumière factory. While the first films were of commonplace occurrences — trains ...