When Thomas Edison finally hung up his lab coat, it still had acid burns from chemistry experiments. Added wear and tear from decades of display has compelled the National Park Service to launch a ...

Special effects have a long history in cinema, but they go back much further than you'd think, and they include an ...

The Thomas Edison House is back open and welcoming visitors for tours. They are open most days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. You can find more information on the Thomas Edison House Facebook page.

Edison’s close friend, Henry Ford, who bought a home next to Edison’s in 1916, removed the lab in 1926, relocating it to Greenfield Village, his history museum outside Detroit. (“Ford even ...

Charles Edison Home Movies 3 by Thomas Edison NHP on YouTube. Edison died on October 18, 1931, three months after the video was taken. He was 84. The eight digitized videos were taken on 16 mm ...

Thomas A. Edison was born the youngest of seven children in the cozy home on Feb. 11, 1847, and the village and the world were never the same. The modest three-story home is now […] Skip to content ...

could easily fill a book, and that's the case with "Edison and the Rise of Innovation" (Sterling Signature, $29.95). Written by Leonard DeGraaf, archivist of the Thomas Edison National Park in ...