Viral cat videos history: Thomas Edison's film studio filmed cats over a century ago. His studio produced short films ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Want to make a movie? You’ll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in the small town of Milan, Ohio. Throughout his lifetime, he earned 1,093 patents, and became the driving force behind some of the most important ...

In a 1911 interview with The Miami Metropolis, Thomas Edison, who was almost certainly the then-greatest living inventor, was asked to predict what he thought the world would look like 100 years in ...

Thomas Edison tried more than 2,000 different filaments before he was able to create a market-viable light bulb. Some filaments burnt out and others were too expensive to source. Still, others were ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. American inventor Thomas Edison often gets a bad rap from ...

Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West ...

IS TESLA CEO ELON MUSK THE THOMAS EDISON OF THE 21ST CENTURY? On the face of it, the similarities between Elon Musk and Thomas Edison are not hard to see: Each is an American engineer turned ...

1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was to ...

Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by himself. That's according to David Burkus, author of "The Myths of Creativity," who says ...