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 ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his ... for producing one of his most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.

The Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers once served as a winter home for Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey ...

Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world's most famous inventors, Thomas Edison. Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development ...

MILAN, Ohio (WJW) – Inventor, businessman and Ohio’s Own! Thomas Edison may have grown up in “that state up north,” but he was born and spent his first seven years here in the Buckeye State.

but it is also home to a relatively unknown monument dedicated to Thomas Edison (1847-1931). To commemorate the achievements of the great American inventor, a flower-offering ceremony was held at ...