Researchers are going back to Thomas Edison's old nickel-iron battery design more than 100 years later to make a new, ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

Did Thomas Edison actually invent the lightbulb? Turns out, there's more to the story than what you thought you knew! Every ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

Research confirms that small teams are more likely to achieve major breakthroughs, even if it doesn’t make for the best ...

A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, ...

For thousands of years people relied on flames to provide light at night. Even today people without access to electricity use candles, lamps and lanterns as light sources. The arrival of practical ...