Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

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 ...

According to experts, Edison’s most important invention wasn’t patentable, but it could benefit modern-day banks and insurers trying to reinvent their digital capabilities. Thomas Edison is one of ...

On November 29, 1877, young Thomas Edison tested his newest invention the phonograph. It was the first time anyone had recorded sound and played it back.

Granville T. Woods was one of the most prolific Black inventors in the 19th century. In the 1880s, Thomas Edison sued Woods twice, claiming he'd first invented a telegraph for trains. Woods' ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

Most of us are familiar with the adage "a day late and a dollar short." But few of us are familiar with a Thomas A. Edison's invention that was 120 years ahead of its time. In 1902, Edison announced ...

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 ...

Tara Isabella Burton - Author, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities From da Vinci to the Kardashians Thomas Edison told journalists they would each receive a brief, private demonstration of the new ...

It’s the Month of Giving and the epic game show “Jeopardy!” will gift Hagley Museum in Wilmington some new fans when it airs on an episode on Thursday, Dec. 8. All eyes will be on Hagley on Thursday ...

Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West ...

By the age of 15, due to his unique ability to get fired for planning experiments and inventions in his head while on the job, Edison became an itinerant Western Union telegrapher before moving to New ...