National Inventor’s Day honors inventors of the past, the creators of the present, and encourages the architects of the ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did not revolutionize ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

It is generally assumed that Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp was the product of inspired tinkering. Actually it was but one element in a much deeper invention: an entire system of electric lighting ...

Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It completely transformed homes, cities, and industries worldwide, going on ...

Thomas Edison noticed this first in 1883 ... He was not a scientist but an inventor, a tinkerer. This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor.

You might believe that Thomas Edison was a world-changing inventor, but his most phenomenal role was brand architect. And this is why you've never heard of Joseph Swan. Who invented the light bulb?

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...