Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas ... inventions at first focused on ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions to the lightbulb-but he dabbled in ... Edison's invention of a single-pour ...

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 ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

Thomas Edison noticed this first in 1883 ... De Forest came along a decade later. De Forest invented something he called the "audion." Not only did it force current to move in a single direction ...

Edison plays an important role in “The Race Underground.” He’s a brief mentor to a key ... before leaving and going on to invent the electric motor that would be used on street trolleys ...

Fronted by a luxurious mustache, this loyal lieutenant to Thomas ... he followed, quickly making himself useful turning Edison’s brainstorms into cash. In 1877, after Edison invented the ...

Even 90 years after his death, Thomas Edison is still a household name. Why not? He invented — or at least ... The batteries did not completely disappear after Edison. Their long life and ...

Ten buildings in legendary inventor Thomas Edison's plant ... ultimately makes you stronger. Not only did Edison master his own emotions, but he also instilled this mindset in his employees.