On a winter day in 1895, a Quaker inventor brought his movie projector into the halls of the Franklin Institute and stunned its distinguished guests. The Phantoscope, as C. Francis Jenkins dubbed his ...
November 21 is a date rich with pivotal moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.
On Feb. 24, 1926, 79-year-old Thomas Alva Edison stepped up to the plate at the Philadelphia Athletics' spring training camp in Fort Myers and, after missing his first swing, rapped a major-league ...
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 ...
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One Inventor That Everyone Should Know But Even Historians Forget
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla often dominate the conversation about history's most important ...
And that means here in Upstate New York, the harsh weather and threat of severe snow and ice storms and dangerous, life-threatening blizzard conditions like what Erie County and Western New York ...
Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...
Who invented the light bulb? Of course, you’d say Thomas Edison. But what you may not realize is that Edison did not invent the light bulb. It was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan and Henry Woodward.
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