Learn about Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor known for his revolutionary inventions like the light bulb, ...

Jacques designed and patented a talking doll, and Edison’s New Jersey factory—the Edison Phonograph Works—manufactured talking machines for inside the dolls. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to ...

Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates his phonograph and his use of carbon transmitters for the telephone at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences held at the Smithsonian Building on April 16-19, ...

“If you had been given the money you would have been six years ahead of us,” von Ohain told Whittle when they met years later. Both inventors happened to move to the U.S.—von Ohain in 1947 and Whittle ...

Sure, you can read about the Wright brothers in a book and learn how they converted their knowledge of bicycles into the world’s first airplane. Or you can head to suburban Detroit to tour the Wrights ...

A partnership between Cody and Thomas Edison led to tungsten from Campo Bonito used directly for Edison’s incandescent electric lights.

Photographer Andrei Duman uses X-rays to create the images in “Beyond the Surface.” The objects displayed include an Enigma ...

This article was originally published with the title “Edison's System of Concrete Houses” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 97 No. 20 (November 1907), p. 356 doi:10.1038 ...

Thomas A. Edison picks Bennett, Ripley, LaPlante as Athletes of Year for 2024-25 ...

Thomas Mulligan shares how Thomas Edison’s strange sleep trick inspired over 1,000 inventions.

It’s remarkable to think about a century later. An assemblage of brilliance, living like kings while pretending to be ...

FOLLOWING A HEAT-RELATED POWER OUTAGE IN QUEENS, CON EDISON has reduced voltage in the area while crews repair equipment.