Battery innovations are happening around the world, including with tech that revives Thomas Edison-era iron-alkaline science.

While popularly regarded as an inventor, Edison was an able applied chemist whose numerous inventions and businesses were enabled by his chemical knowledge. Through experimentation and with skilled ...

Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world's most famous inventors, Thomas Edison. Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development ...

A key figure in the second industrial revolution, Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was a brilliant scientist and businessman who obtained more than a thousand patents for inventions over the course of ...

It was discontinued in the early 1930s, according to the museum at Thomas Edison's winter estate in Fort Myers, FL, where the celebrated scientist's sandwich grill is on display. Edison's ...