Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

When you think of the word 'inventor,' one person comes to mind: America's Thomas Edison. The countless items known as his inventions and his eccentric anecdotes have branded him as a 'lone, eccentric ...

With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

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 ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

Tara Isabella Burton - Author, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities From da Vinci to the Kardashians Thomas Edison told journalists they would each receive a brief, private demonstration of the new ...

(WAVE) - It’s as if the creators of Kentucky’s new social studies standards ran as fast and far away as possible from the many extraordinary individuals throughout history whose achievements provide ...

On Thursday, presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that a Black man had invented the light bulb, not “a White guy named Edison.” Biden was at a community meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the site of ...

(CNN) — 140 years after its invention, the Edison light bulb is having another moment. Now, Edison-style bulbs are the center of a new lawsuit. The University of California Santa Barbara is suing five ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...