In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally famous inventor in his early 30s, set out to create an incandescent light bulb that provided enough light to illuminate a home but would last ...

(Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) It was nearly 150 years ago that Thomas Edison and others commercialized incandescent ...

She came out to play — and petrify. A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users ...

selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. In 1928 the Menlo Park buildings were moved from their original site in New Jersey to Dearborn where they were reconstructed ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

When you think of light bulbs, this base probably comes to mind. Named for Thomas Edison and patented in 1881, the metal, ...

Around the same time across the Atlantic, Thomas Edison was busy working on incandescent light bulbs. Incandescent light bulbs work by running current through a material, called the filament ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

This is the Edison clock, designed by [David Krawczyk ... You can see the series of holes on the front of the base. These have a small light bulb socked in each, and correspond to hours and ...

O’Connell says his love of tinkering and illumination comes from growing up in New Jersey — his father was a math teacher, ...