Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, the father of the man who founded the car company, developed a one-of-a-kind electric vehicle known as the Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton. Thomas Edison purchased an electric ...

In the early 1900s, driving a gasoline-powered car wasn’t exactly easy ... including famous names like Thomas Edison. The Baker Electric was marketed for its ease of use and luxury, attracting ...

Thomas Edison would be, too. He tried to produce electric vehicles for Ford around 1900. Petroleum-based vehicles dashed his dreams of the electric car, and the battery he wanted to use languished ...

It is Thomas Edison's electric pen. By the time he got around ... then prints his own newspaper from the baggage car. Eccentric Edison sleeps fully clothed on his laboratory floor.

Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero ... Edison, who was convinced the future lay in electric powered cars, encouraged Ford to "keep at it." In 1907, Ford was on the brink of releasing the ...

Thomas Edison would be, too. He tried to produce electric vehicles for Ford around 1900. Petroleum-based vehicles dashed his dreams of the electric car, and the battery he wanted to use languished ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

In February 1881, Thomas Edison established the headquarters of the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City. Edison's goal of electrifying Lower Manhattan had stalled for two years while ...