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?

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

“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 ...

Electricity is the movement of electrons between atoms. Its "discovery" is credited to a host of people, not the least of whom is an American legend, genius, and one of its founding fathers, Benjamin ...

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 ...