The 'turnabout' in inventor Thomas Edison's life began when he was only age 8. I am convinced that each of us has a 'turnabout' tale either in our past or in our future.

But to his wife Mina Miller Edison, who was 19 years his junior, and mother and stepmother of his six children, he wasn’t much of a father at all.

Thomas Edison's Early Life. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Edison’s father, Samuel, was a shingle maker and land speculator, while his mother, Nancy, kept house and ...

Charles Edison Home Movies 3 by Thomas Edison NHP on YouTube. Edison died on October 18, 1931, three months after the video was taken. He was 84. The eight digitized videos were taken on 16 mm ...

Left: Noted inventor Thomas Edison at the lightbulb's golden jubilee anniversary banquet in his honor, Orange, New Jersey, Oct. 16, 1929, with a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One day, a young Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a letter to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this to me and told me to only give it to my mother.” As ...