Southern California Edison and its predecessor companies have been powering the lives of Angelenos going back to late 1880s, ...

Say what you will but to my way of thinking Sir Thomas Crapper’s invention of the flushing toilet is head over heels better than what Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla came up with. When I was growing up ...

It’s high time that Nicholas Holonyak Jr. is given his due. You’re probably saying, “Who?” To which I say, case in point.

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

The 1920s, often called the “Roaring Twenties,” were a time of major change and excitement. After World War I, people were ...

The Wright brothers’ 1903 invention enabled faster travel, shrinking distances and making the world more connected. Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, penicillin became the first antibiotic, ...

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

In that year, the inventor and civil servant Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to design a card to help Cole handle his Christmas correspondence more efficiently.

Few people know that a Black inventor named Lewis Latimer worked with Thomas Edison and played a role in improving the light bulb. Latimer co-created “a method of manufacturing carbon filaments for ...

Suffice it to say, Johnson’s lights were a hit, and the Edison General Electric Company was the first to mass-produce Christmas tree lights in 1901. They were offered in sets of nine carbon filament ...

A Victorian invention? While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, ...