For every phonograph, there was a concrete bathtub. Forget the light bulb. Thomas Edison’s greatest invention was a two-story house in rural New Jersey. In March 1876, Edison set up his famous Menlo ...
Born 166 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime. Although the man from Milton, Ohio ...
Who invented the electricity bulb? The American scientist behind the invention of the electricity bulb is Thomas Edison. The most creative and significant inventor in US history was born on February ...
WEST ORANGE, N.J. | The Thomas Edison National Historic Park preserves the laboratory and home of America's premier inventor. The complex of red brick buildings at Main Street and Lakeside Avenue once ...
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 ...
Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 158th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass ...
Thomas Edison's genius was so much a part of the fabric of American life by the late 1870s that when a journalist claimed Edison invented a machine that could turn air, water and earth into food for ...
Thomas Edison, whose 169th birthday falls on Feb. 11, is best known for inventing the lightbulb and for being one of the fathers of movie-making and sound recording, but there's a less-recognized ...
Thomas Edison seated beside a phonograph in 1921. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need ...
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