Thomas Edison tried more than 2,000 different filaments before he was able to create a market-viable light bulb. Some filaments burnt out and others were too expensive to source. Still, others were ...

Thomas Edison’s quote, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work,” is one of the most famous lessons on ...

In a 1911 interview with The Miami Metropolis, Thomas Edison, who was almost certainly the then-greatest living inventor, was asked to predict what he thought the world would look like 100 years in ...

Along the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Florida, there’s a property that’s far older than most. But it isn’t just its ...

A collection of recently digitized home videos published by the Thomas Edison National Historical Park and Library of Congress includes the last known footage of Thomas Edison. The inventor and ...

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 ...

Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West ...

IS TESLA CEO ELON MUSK THE THOMAS EDISON OF THE 21ST CENTURY? On the face of it, the similarities between Elon Musk and Thomas Edison are not hard to see: Each is an American engineer turned ...

One of the earliest known milestones in recorded history sits nestled in an 18-inch doll. Inventor Thomas Edison embedded small phonographs inside the metal torsos of thousands of dolls that “talked” ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. American inventor Thomas Edison often gets a bad rap from ...