Here are some cool photos of electric cars from the turn of the century.. That's Thomas Edison in the photo at right, standing by GE’s Mercury Arc Rectifier. The car was considered “the most ...

1912: Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) was a prolific inventor and physicist who was born in Milan, Ohio. He invented the kinetoscope in 1891 and in 1912 produced the first talking motion pictures.

The Print Edition. Latest Issue Past ... New Jersey, site of Thomas Edison's famed campus for invention. The good folks at the Library of Congress took dozens of photos of the site, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Everyone wanted a piece of Thomas Alva Edison on Wednesday afternoon. Speaking at a U.S. Capitol dedication ceremony for a statue of the prolific inventor from tiny Milan, Ohio ...