Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

He developed many innovations in the fields of electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures ... Observations of Thomas Alva Edison," which was published ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then ...

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph ...

Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It ...

the telephone transmitter and the motion picture camera. “Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor America ever had. And like many brilliant men he was capable of spectacularly wrong ...