This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

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.

Sir Dr. NakaMats is one of the greatest inventors of our time ... or three times as many as Thomas Edison (1,093 and no longer counting). “The big difference between Edison and me,” he ...

Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development in the way people answer the telephone. Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world ...

44. Thomas Edison didn't consider the commercial light bulb to be his greatest invention. He preferred the phonograph. 45. The Edison Bridge — named after Thomas Edison — opened in 1929 on the ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his ... for producing one of his most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.

Back in 1885, Thomas Edison ... not just for Edison, but also to two other prolific inventors, Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford. WATCH: Fort Myers museum is home to various inventions and artifacts ...