In Britain, too, the popular press saw Edison as a mixture of scientist and magician. H.G. Wells would have been aware of this mixed persona, perpetuated in numerous articles, as The Times of 31 ...

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 ...

the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time Tara Isabella Burton The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as ...

10, 1914, a massive explosion erupted in West Orange, New Jersey. Ten buildings in legendary inventor Thomas Edison's plant, which comprised more than half of the site, were engulfed in flames.

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... but it cemented his legacy as a clever inventor. This style of architectural design and building technology is mostly associated with the ...

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 ...