Edison became a household name for his inventions that ushered in a new era of modernity with light and sound in every home. With more than 1,000 patents and inventions that inspired people throughout ...

Dubbed China's Useless Edison, his fame has grown because his inventions are seen as odd, and often unnecessary. The former plumber, who lives in the northern province of Hebei, became an internet ...

Explore groundbreaking and accidental inventions! The BBC Gladiators micro:bit challenge inspires 7–11-year-olds to design ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll ...

A history of the Edison Company the pioneering film production company begun by Thomas A Edison Included are more than 140 complete films produced by the company between 1891 and 1918 along with ...