Edison became a household name for his inventions that ushered in a new era of modernity with light and sound in every home. With more than 1,000 patents and inventions that inspired people throughout ...

which Thomas Edison is credited with creating in 1879, has illuminated homes and workplaces worldwide. Its invention allowed for previously unheard-of productivity levels after dark, transforming ...

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's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did not revolutionize real estate as he had hoped, but ...

It’s been a constant since Edison first produced his scratchy recordings on tinfoil. Even he seems to have intuited the power of that invention. Edison was once asked, of your thousand-fold ...

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.

He had no idea that his invention would spawn a multi-billion dollar global music business. Edison was 30 when he patented his phonograph in 1877, but he wasn’t the first to record sound.

WATCH: Fort Myers museum is home to various inventions and artifacts by 3 innovators Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers is filled with inventions, artifacts Breanna Alexander is the ...

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.