Want to make a movie? You’ll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop all three technologies. He was born in Milan, ...

In this entertaining biography, Stross (eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work) approaches the life of Edison from an atypical angle: where scores of other biographers have ...

On Oct. 11, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to take flight in an airplane. The light bulb dreamed up by Thomas Alva Edison is on its last legs as a product made in ...

Many of us know that Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor of the incandescent lamp, phonograph and one of the earliest movie cameras. Some of us who studied the Wizard from Menlo Park during our school ...

1868 Edison executed a patent application for his electric vote recorder, for which he later is issued his first patent. 1874 Edison invents the quadruplex telegraph, ownership of which is disputed by ...

We owe many of the electronic luxuries that we take for granted to Thomas Alva Edison. With 1,093 U.S. patents to his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, he is ...

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison is a two-part story produced by The Kitchen Sisters™, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva that explores the recorded legacy of the near-deaf ...

Today marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Port Huron’s most favorite of sons, Thomas Alva Edison. Local residents swell with some justifiable pride at the mention of the great inventor, even ...

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch Fox News contributor and author Raymond Arroyo discuss this topic and more on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30 a.m. ET. Though Thomas Alva Edison’s creations and ...