With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Given that inventor Thomas Edison had a curious mind, maybe it’s fitting that with “Edison,” author Edmund Morris has given ...

In honor of Southwest Florida’s celebrating the genius of renowned winter resident Thomas Edison, join me in a fun brain-teaser. What do the numbers 223,898, 1,093 and 82 have in common? I’ll give you ...

BIDEN: "Why in God's name don't we teach history in history classes? A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison." — in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday. THE FACTS: Biden is ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

FALL RIVER — It’s been long overdue — 95 years in fact — but Saturday saw the unveiling of a headstone and memorial for 19th century Black inventor Lewis Howard Latimer at Oak Grove Cemetery. Latimer, ...

(CNN)-- 140 years after its invention, the Edison light bulb is having another moment. Now Edison-style bulbs are the center of a new lawsuit. The University of California Santa Barbara is suing five ...

Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which brought ...