In its early years, the development of the automobile evolved slowly. First, it needed to prove that it had any legitimate use when compared to other travel methods of the time, before the industry ...

Edison is also such an incredible example of persistence. It is said that he failed 999 times to make a working electric ...

Most people would say Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb, but it wasn't really a singular invention that can be ...

It took a lot of people to create the light bulb. But a process of mythmaking has flattened one man and elevated him to ...

If you’re planning a trip to New Jersey, make sure to add some of the state’s must-see historic landmarks to your itinerary.

Headquartered in New York, Corning has a long legacy of technological breakthroughs, from the first glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the world’s first low-loss optical fibre in 1970.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Thomas Edison and Henry Ford are famous for their innovations in electricity generation and automobiles respectively, but they were also at the forefront of a massively popular ...

Edison carbon lamp, ca.1884. Brass medium-screw base with plaster-dome insulator. Single-arch bamboo filament with copper-plated connectors, 3-piece leads, cork insulator. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped ...

Henry Alden Clark was born in Harborcreek on Jan. 7, 1850 to Chauncey and Emeline Clark. He and his younger brother William received their early years of education from their mother. When Henry was 14 ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, city dwellers opened a gas valve to turn on the lights. Thomas Edison changed that. But the light bulb wasn’t Edison’s only invention. Welcome to another in our series ...