PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch Fox News contributor and author Raymond Arroyo discuss this topic and more on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30 a.m. ET. Though Thomas Alva Edison’s creations and ...

From the electric light and the telegraph to the fuel cell and the universal stock printer, Thomas Edison made magic from his lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey (now named after the inventor). In an ...

Dave Dazer carefully sets a needle into a groove on a spinning black disk. After several initial pops, crackles and hisses, a male singer's voice warbles from the end of a large trumpet. "Barney ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with recording the first human sound. In reality, that achievement belongs to a French ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Want to make a movie? You’ll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop ...

The first decade of the 20th century was, for many people, a period characterized by incredible optimism for the future. The November 22, 1908 Sunday New York Times ran an article titled, “Inventions ...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up with disastrous results. As a consequence, the townsfolk all ...

Edison sits beside his phonograph, 1877. * Photo: Matthew Brady * 1847: Thomas Alva Edison is born. Edison is front and center in the pantheon of prolific inventor-entrepreneur-opportunists. Alone or ...

Title: Old Tom Edison Would Be Amazed at What He Started Way Back When Author: Julie A. Traxler Subject: Building on tradition, the region”s R&D labs are investigating a lot more than lightbulbs Every ...

Thomas Edison was 81 when Congress got around to presenting him its gold medal 87 years ago. It was about time, some lawmakers said, and the ceremonial gift was an effort to correct what they saw as ...