Asked to evaluate his son's abilities as an intellectual, the elder Edison said that he was, “absolutely illiterate, ...

At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

developed by the American inventor Thomas Edison (1847–1931). A replica of a light bulb using a bamboo filament In Yawata City, southern Kyoto Prefecture, there is an area that features an expanse of ...

But the ‘Wizard’ is revered for his contributions to the light bulb, the phonograph, the telephone transmitter and the motion picture camera. “Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor ...