Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did not revolutionize ...

Thomas Edison was the king of invention. He developed many innovations in the fields of electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures, all of which had a ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

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It is generally assumed that Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp was the product of inspired tinkering. Actually it was but one element in a much deeper invention: an entire system of electric lighting ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...