When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a ...

The discoverer of the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the quadruplex telegraph, among other things, is one of ...

The Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum has announced a new partnership with the Jeffris Family Foundation, an organization ...

When Arleen Rodríguez confidently proclaimed that “José Martí never knew electric light and was a genius,” she not only ...

People remember Thomas A. Edison as one of the most important inventors. He worked on a lot of ideas and had thousands of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison ...

Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things. His medium was Review of Reviews (monthly). Thus from his seat at West Orange, ...

As twilight descended over North Jersey on Dec. 9, 1914, an explosion tore through Thomas Edison’s laboratory complex. The blast originated in the West Orange facility's film inspection building.

Autograph letter handwritten in black ink on the printed letterhead of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, addressed to "Clarke" and signed "Edison." There ...