In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the world’s first practical light bulb and was in the middle of an all-out media blitz to bring attention to his new product. On New Year's Eve ...

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.

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio ... The experiment, concluded on October 21, 1879, is heralded as the birth of the electric light. Research continued to find a more resilient and higher-voltage ...

Muybridge's findings fascinated many, and with Stanford's support he created a sequential photo projector -- the zoogyroscope -- in 1879 ... the great inventor Thomas Edison and his British ...