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 ...

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 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 ...

Born 166 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime. Although the man from Milton ...

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 ...

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 ...

Burkus is not the first to challenge the lone creator ... the commercialization of a product more than its actual invention. Thomas Edison, in other words, is not so much the man behind the ...