Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve ...

At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

at least — the bulbs don’t look different on the outside. You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much stranger (public domain ...

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 ...

inventor Thomas Edison, had more than 1,000 U.S. patents for his inventions, including the first commercial light bulb, a universal stock ticker, the phonograph and the motion picture camera.

You could blame it on old Thomas Edison and the light bulb. But most of the growth in night shift work is rooted in the growing global economy. As more businesses and workforces operate and ...

Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.

the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time Tara Isabella Burton The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as ...