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

Benjamin Franklin discovered how to use electricity. Thomas Edison used that to create the light bulb. But what about the first home to fully utilize these discoveries?

“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 ...

On Dec. 31, 1879, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electric incandescent lights for the public by illuminating some 100 bulbs in and around his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

When Thomas Edison set out to develop a practical and economical incandescent electric light bulb in mid-1878, he quickly realized that, to achieve commercial success, he would have to create a ...

Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while ...