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.

In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the world’s first practical light bulb and was in the middle of an all-out media blitz to bring attention to his new product. On New Year's Eve ...

At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much stranger (public domain) It has been known for a long time that passing a current through a wire ...

Enter LED bulbs. LED bulbs followed compact fluorescents (CFLs) onto store shelves in the early 2000’s as an even more ...

Fronted by a luxurious mustache, this loyal lieutenant to Thomas Edison was the ... street-side window of his parlor, Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and strung them together ...

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

Swan continued to develop his invention and in ... established the world's first light bulb factory at Benwell in Newcastle. In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had ...

He told ST that Edison received many gifts throughout his ... light bulb manufacturer. “In many parts of the world, if you ask someone to name the greatest inventor, chances are they will say ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...