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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?

While the Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison initially started as collaborators, their relationship soon turned sour.

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General Electric is saying goodbye to the light bulb. The conglomerate is shedding a struggling business founded by Thomas Edison more than a century ago.

It’s high time that Nicholas Holonyak Jr. is given his due. You’re probably saying, “Who?” To which I say, case in point.

Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for ...