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 ...

GD Naidu, who was a Coimbatore based inventor and engineer, is known as the Edison of India and credited with manufacturing ...

Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did not revolutionize real estate as he had hoped, but it cemented his legacy as a clever inventor. This style of architectural ...

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 ...

is the only piece of scientific work Edison ever did. 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.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Invention of the Electric Light ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5 (November 1959), p. 98 doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...