Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When many people imagine an inventor, they think of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). One of the most prolific inventors ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

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THE Times New York correspondent gives some interesting details in Monday's paper of Mr. Edison's new form of electric lighting and the steps by which he was led to its discovery. So far the light has ...

The transaction represented a symbolic closing to G.E.’s opening chapters in the second Industrial Revolution. By Michael Levenson More than 140 years after Thomas Edison and his assistants conducted ...

It took a lot of people to create the light bulb. But a process of mythmaking has flattened one man and elevated him to legendary status. The following is an excerpt from The Genius Myth: A Curious ...

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