This article was originally published with the title “ The Invention of the Electric Light ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5 (November 1959), p. 98 doi:10.1038 ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... affordable and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

Thomas Edison noticed ... gas or even a vacuum. The Edison effect, incidentally, is the only piece of scientific work Edison ever did. He was not a scientist but an inventor, a tinkerer.

Inventor, businessman and Ohio’s Own! Thomas Edison may have grown up in “that state up north,” but he was born and spent his ...

Back in 1885, Thomas Edison was one of the original ... became a winter getaway not just for Edison, but also to two other prolific inventors, Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford.

But in 1956, rock and roll was scary for many parents. 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 ...