Pretty much everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and the light bulb, but Edison, one of history’s most prolific creators, didn’t stop there. As this exclusive clip from ...

In February 1881, Thomas Alva Edison left his workbench in Menlo Park, New Jersey behind for New York City with the challenge of not only bringing electric light to lower Manhattan, but also to ...

More than 300 people packed the Fridley State Theatre in Washington, Ia., to see "Saving Brinton," an Iowa-made documentary that tells the story of Zahs' discovery of some of the earliest movies ...

Westinghouse's company soon gets a leg up on Edison as more American cities start implementing Tesla's technology, culminating in a climactic bidding war with General Electric over whether to ...

Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. At the age of 12, he took a job as a newsboy on a daily train between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan.

Thomas Edison's House. Download the Transcript. The Case: Was this home designed and built by inventor Thomas Edison? Did the inventor of the electric light, the motion picture camera and wireless ...

Thomas Edison a.k.a. The Movie Mogul Who Started LOLcats Lightbulbs are nice, but it was Edison’s kinetoscope 115 years ago today that brought us Hollywood and boxing cats.