an outfit ostensibly owned by the son of famed inventor Thomas Edison. The family name had become synonymous with innovation; ...

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 ...

When Mrs. Elizabeth Naidi Hetman of Sandisfield came to America from Russia just before World War I, she worked for Thomas Alva Edison at his ...

Fronted by a luxurious mustache, this loyal lieutenant to Thomas Edison was the embodiment of his era: part engineer, part businessman, part Barnum. In 1871, Johnson hired Edison, then a 24-year ...

MILAN, Ohio (WJW) – Inventor, businessman and Ohio’s Own! Thomas Edison may have grown up in “that state up north,” but he was born and spent his first seven years here in the Buckeye State.