Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve ...

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” ...

at least — the bulbs don’t look different on the outside. You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much stranger (public domain ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

This is the Edison clock, designed by [David Krawczyk ... These have a small light bulb socked in each, and correspond to hours and 5-minute increments. Insert two bulbs to set the alarm time ...

Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.

the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time Tara Isabella Burton The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as ...