At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

While Thomas Edison may be known as the man who invented the light bulb, it can be argued that Nikola Tesla is the one who turned it on. Before the booming tech revolution of Silicon Valley ...

In reality, Thomas Edison Jr. had very little in common with ... He ushered in the era of modern electricity, perfecting the incandescent light bulb and championing a system that would wire ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

at least — the bulbs don’t look different on the outside. You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much stranger (public domain ...

Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.