The retirement of the bald, animated mascot used in Mr. Clean ads and on products since 1958 was announced in a social media ...

Over 160 years ago on Feb. 13, 1861, Col. Bernard J.D. Irwin, an assistant Army surgeon, performed the very first action to ...

Larry Sprinkle tells us about how the first patent for a phonograph was granted to Thomas Edison on Feb. 19, 1878.

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

A fter more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only begotten but continuously fathered the electrical era, Thomas Alva Edison believes that we have only ...

Today, we celebrate our Nation’s most prolific inventor and a man who never stopped pushing the spirit of American innovation: the legendary Thomas ...

In David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film (Knopf 1994), Thomas Edison is a “grinch” who “always seemed grim, suspicious, and costive…. There’s an eerie contradiction between his own ...

Explore three homes in Louisville's historic Butchertown, including Thomas Edison's former residence, a 'shantyboat' house, ...

Abstract: In 1917, the American Scenic and Historical Society and New York Edison installed a plaque on a building at the corner of Pearl and Fulton Streets in lower Manhattan, in New York City, NY, ...

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving belt. Researchers at Rice University suggest Edison may have inadvertently ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Pasadena Jewish Temple sued Southern California Edison, claiming the utility’s negligence and aging ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...