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.

The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the ... For more than 100 years, the basic design of light bulbs followed Edison’s original 1879 invention, until incandescent bulbs were phased out in ...

You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much stranger (public domain) It has been known for a long time that passing a current through a wire ...

Fronted by a luxurious mustache, this loyal lieutenant to Thomas Edison was the embodiment ... charging crowds to drum up excitement. When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value ...

Light bulbs have been the standard mode of illuminating homes in the United States for more than a century after replacing ...

Back in 1885, Thomas Edison was one of the original snowbirds after building ... now preserving a legacy as bright as Edison's bulb.