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 ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development in the way people answer the telephone. Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his ... for producing one of his most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.