Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent ... at least — the bulbs don’t look different on the outside. You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light ...

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.

Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National ... in developing a ...

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.