The new Walt Disney animatronic won’t be forced to evict the Abe Lincoln animatronic from the Disneyland Opera House thanks ...

With enrollment trending down, colleges are simplifying the process for students to get credit for skills they already have, ...

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

On September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison flipped the switch on the world’s first electric grid—right here in Lower Manhattan. This electrifying tour and history talk traces how that moment sparked ...

The Edison Phonograph Works, in West Orange, N.J., manufactured the phonographs, inserted them into dolls, and packaged them for sale. The talking dolls work imperfectly, sold poorly, and proved a ...

In the winter of 1882, Thomas Edison, America's inventor extraordinaire, vacationed for the first time in northern Florida. He was only 35, but he had already succeeded in creating, among other ...

A key figure in the second industrial revolution, Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was a brilliant scientist and businessman who obtained more than a thousand patents for inventions over the course of his ...

Thomas Edison’s 146-question employment test was so difficult that the inventor’s own son—as well as Albert ...

Southern California Edison and its predecessor companies have been powering the lives of Angelenos going back to late 1880s, just a few years after Thomas ...

A museum now stands where Thomas Edison's laboratory stood in West Orange. It houses 400,000 artifacts and 5 million documents.