Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

Back in 1885, Thomas Edison ... not just for Edison, but also to two other prolific inventors, Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford. WATCH: Fort Myers museum is home to various inventions and artifacts ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his ... for producing one of his most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development in the way people answer the telephone. Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world ...

Back in 1885, Thomas Edison was one of the original snowbirds after building a winter estate on Florida’s southwest coast. His home, known as the Seminole lodge, became a winter getaway not just for ...