As twilight descended over North Jersey on Dec. 9, 1914, an explosion tore through Thomas Edison’s laboratory complex. The blast originated in the West Orange facility's film inspection building ...

The 'turnabout' in inventor Thomas Edison's life began when he was only age 8. I am convinced that each of us has a 'turnabout' tale either in our past or in our future.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos revealed his admiration for Thomas Edison and Walt Disney as his primary historical role models, highlighting qualities that shaped his approach ...

A mazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos said that Thomas Edison and Walt Disney are his “two biographical heroes” who influenced his entrepreneurial philosophy. In a 2001 interview, Bezos ...

Gfell’s legacy as Milan’s “Edison Man” will be captured in an addition to The Birthplace Museum of Thomas A. Edison, said its President Robert Wheeler. “Don was such a massive influence ...

Or Thomas Edison, who developed a spirit phone, “an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.” Or Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed ...

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877. It "will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted with stunning accuracy in 1878.