With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

The electric light wasn’t Thomas Edison’s first invention, nor was he the first to create an alternative to gaslight. Electric lights already existed on a streetlight scale when, on this day in 1879, ...

Tara Isabella Burton - Author, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities From da Vinci to the Kardashians Thomas Edison told journalists they would each receive a brief, private demonstration of the new ...

Many credit the invention of the incandescent light bulb with Edison or Swan but its development actually took place over two centuries and by the time Edison and Swan got involved, the tech was down ...

(via BBC Earth) Thomas Edison often gets credit for the invention of the light bulb, but a good argument can be made that they were around centuries earlier in the form of barometric light.

For every phonograph, there was a concrete bathtub. Forget the light bulb. Thomas Edison’s greatest invention was a two-story house in rural New Jersey. In March 1876, Edison set up his famous Menlo ...