Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of ... machinists’ shops and company workshops for research space and to produce his inventions. For a five-year period, Edison maintained ...

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.

In January 1876, Mary gave birth to Thomas Edison, Jr. The inventor quickly nicknamed his ... By the end of that year, Edison began selling the rights to manufacture and market the pen.

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media ... one of the famed inventor’s earliest creations. They also added a link to the eerie audio of the seemingly ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his day. In this silent film, they capture the prolific inventor discussing new ideas with ...

MILAN, Ohio (WJW) – Inventor, businessman and Ohio’s Own! Thomas Edison may have grown up in “that state up north,” but he was born and spent his first seven years here in the Buckeye State.

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 ...

WATCH: Fort Myers museum is home to various inventions and artifacts by ... "Ford only spent about two weeks out of the year here, whereas Thomas Edison would spend two to four months," Alexander ...