In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally famous inventor in his early 30s ... In 1869, when he was just 22 years old, Edison filed his first patent for an electric vote recorder ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

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 ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of ... machinists’ shops and company workshops for research space and to produce his inventions. For a five-year period, Edison maintained ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Invention of the Electric Light ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5 (November 1959), p. 98 doi:10.1038 ...

A judge in this year’s Student of the Year (SOTY ... “Try to act like inventor Thomas Edison or innovator Steve Jobs!” Wong emphasised that invention was different from innovation.