Thomas Edison, the great American inventor who also invented the phonograph. But not everyone knows the drama behind inventing the lightbulb. Did Edison REALLY invent the lightbulb?

In a way, of course, all this goes back to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph 80 years earlier. Back then, he thought he was inventing a playback dictaphone machine, which would make ...

In January 1876, Mary gave birth to Thomas Edison, Jr. The inventor quickly nicknamed his ... Edison produced the phonograph and became world famous. Two years after, he gave the world light.

When Mrs. Elizabeth Naidi Hetman of Sandisfield came to America from Russia just before World War I, she worked for Thomas Alva Edison at his ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Ask anybody in the late 19th or early 20th century in the Lehigh Valley who was the “king” of the still infant movie industry ...

New Jersey has been the birthplace of numerous inventions over the years. Of course, Thomas Edison comes to mind ... including the electric light bulb, the phonograph, the telegraph, and the motion ...

Thomas Edison is responsible for more than one world-changing invention. He developed the motion picture camera, phonograph, and even the electric lightbulb! Considered America’s greatest inventor, ...