Thomas Edison conducted tens of thousands of experiments in his lab in West Orange, New Jersey. See what a day's work looked ...

Imagine waking up tomorrow in a timeline where Thomas Edison was never born. No Wizard of Menlo Park. No mountain of patents.

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in the small town of Milan, Ohio. Throughout his lifetime, he earned 1,093 patents, and became the driving force behind some of the most important ...

Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor unlike any throughout history—and his impact can still be felt in your everyday life. Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, Edison's inventions, which included ...

Thomas Edison tried more than 2,000 different filaments before he was able to create a market-viable light bulb. Some filaments burnt out and others were too expensive to source. Still, others were ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. American inventor Thomas Edison often gets a bad rap from ...

In a 1911 interview with The Miami Metropolis, Thomas Edison, who was almost certainly the then-greatest living inventor, was asked to predict what he thought the world would look like 100 years in ...

In other words, a Cincinnati man invented a working electric light bulb 33 years before Thomas Edison. (Edison’s patent was ...

A new technique for salvaging recordings from delicate antiques has allowed Thomas Edison's talking dolls to find their lost voices. This Thomas Edison talking phonograph doll that recites “Jack and ...

IS TESLA CEO ELON MUSK THE THOMAS EDISON OF THE 21ST CENTURY? On the face of it, the similarities between Elon Musk and Thomas Edison are not hard to see: Each is an American engineer turned ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Want to make a movie? You’ll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop ...