Edison got serious about electric lighting ... Of course, this inefficiency is why there’s been a move to ban incandescent bulbs in favor of LEDs, fluorescents, and other technologies.

At his Menlo Park laboratory, in New Jersey, USA, Edison demonstrated the first practical incandescent light bulb. It could glow for hours without burning out. A newspaper reporter dubbed him 'The ...

The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.

Light bulbs have been the standard mode of illuminating homes in the United States for more than a century after replacing ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about ... most famous inventions: his incandescent 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 ...

According to the shrine, after Edison put an incandescent electric bulb into practical use, he found the bulb had a longer life if carbonized bamboo was used for the filament. The material came ...