Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the ... where telegraph company officers encouraged the development of new technologies. While his inventions at first focused on ...

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 ...

This sense of showmanship was shared by Thomas Edison, who shrewdly realized that making an impression was often as important as providing a worthwhile invention. His demonstration of the electric ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... affordable and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did ...

Edison Jr. Chemical Company, an outfit ostensibly owned by the son of famed inventor ... from the market, Thomas Jr. asserted that he was putting the public’s health first and claimed he turned ...

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 ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931 ... I was sitting there realising I am the first person to get to listen to somebody singing before the outbreak of the American Civil War – the ...

Then it transformed into the Pageant of Light in 1938 to honor Thomas Edison. The inventor had died seven years earlier. The first Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade drew an estimated 12,000 ...