According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

This reminds us of how, in the 1880s, Edison observed current flowing in one direction through a test light bulb that ...

The discoverer of the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the quadruplex telegraph, among other things, is one of ...

When people think of Thomas Edison, they often picture a glowing light bulb and a man who seemed to invent endlessly. What is ...

The Edison Fest parades pack downtown Fort Myers with smiling spectators. But there’s more to the festival than just floats ...

Thomas Edison was a famous American inventor. He contributed greatly to modern technology. Edison held many patents and ...

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 ...