On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the ...

The man credited with inventing the lightbulb had nearly 1,100 patents to his name. One of those creations developed at Menlo ...

In 1889, Wangemann visited Germany and sat with Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and even recorded Johannes Brahms playing his ...

Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor unlike any throughout history—and his impact can still be felt in your everyday life. Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, Edison's inventions, which included ...

Quote of the day by Thomas Edison, “The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child,” focuses on curiosity, imagination, original thinking and learning. The saying explains why children can ...

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual properties that hold great promise for ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in the small town of Milan, Ohio. Throughout his lifetime, he earned 1,093 patents, and became the driving force behind some of the most important ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. American inventor Thomas Edison often gets a bad rap from ...

Thomas Edison tried more than 2,000 different filaments before he was able to create a market-viable light bulb. Some filaments burnt out and others were too expensive to source. Still, others were ...

In a 1911 interview with The Miami Metropolis, Thomas Edison, who was almost certainly the then-greatest living inventor, was asked to predict what he thought the world would look like 100 years in ...

Regular readers of my column will know that last week I wrote about a weird (but apparently researched-backed) nap hack famed inventor Thomas Edison used to come up with new ideas. That means this ...