Thomas Edison used the hypnogogia state between wakefulness and sleep to generate ideas, napping multiple times a day and ...

Edison Mayor Sam Joshi is cruising to a second term. Joshi, 36, a former councilman completing his first four-year term as ...

History is a complex web of triumph, tragedy, and change, but it isn’t immune to the threads of misinformation and misconceptions. There are “facts” that are often passed down through generations and ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

Three first-year students recently took the Thomas Jefferson Foundation up on its offer. Here are their stories.

FRANKLIN TWP., N.J. - Firefighters continue to battle a building fire on Edison Road in Franklin Township, Warren County. It started Tuesday night. Around 600 bales of hay were stored here by a farmer ...

Rubber was oil before oil. As Edmund Morris wrote in his biography of Thomas Edison, in the early parts of the 20th century ...

Did you know that one of Fort Myers most famous residents is indirectly responsible for Hollywood becoming a movie mecca?

Thomas Edison was way ahead of his time when he predicted, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and ...

It took a lot of people to create the light bulb. But a process of mythmaking has flattened one man and elevated him to legendary status. The following is an excerpt from The Genius Myth: A Curious ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

The Edison & Ford Winter Estates, featuring the winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, are a popular tourist attraction in Southwest Florida. The Estates include the friends' former homes, ...