On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

Edison entered the field fully aware of the difficulties other inventors had encountered in developing a practical incandescent light bulb. An incandescent light bulb consists of a glass container ...

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.

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

Walmart’s Super Savings Week has been great for campers, runners, and travelers, but backyard enthusiasts shouldn’t feel left out. There are lots of solid deals on gear for your yard, not least of ...

Compared with Thomas Edison's world-changing invention of the incandescent bulb in 1880, the LED is a space-age evolution of the original. But for all its modern advantages, what usually matters ...

incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments appear on the European market. These bulbs lasted longer, were brighter and more efficient than lamps with carbon filaments. 1908: Edison screws Part of ...

Born in Sunderland, he studied chemistry and moved to Tyneside where, after many years of persistent effort, he created the first successful 'incandescent filament electric lamp' - the light bulb.

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.

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 ...