The Edison Festival of Light began in February 1938 as a way to honor Fort Myers' most famous winter resident, Thomas Edison. Eighty eight years later, the festival is back and still going strong.

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

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 ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

THE fertility of Mr. Edison's inventive genius has frequently been referred to recently, though the attractive and popular nature of the phonograph has had the effect of throwing some almost equally ...

(Original Caption) Thomas A. Edison exhibits a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp, which gave 16 candlepower of illumination, in contrast to the ultimate in today's achievement, a ...

News of Thomas Edison’s (1847–1931) death on October 18, 1931, quickly reached colonial Korea. The Chosun Ilbo reported the obituary under the headline “Death of Edison, the Benefactor of Humanity and ...

From the star that shines atop the iconic Rockefeller Center tree to the dazzling, multicolored bulbs strung on houses, storefronts and public squares around the world, Christmas lights brighten ...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos revealed his admiration for Thomas Edison and Walt Disney as his primary historical role models, highlighting qualities that shaped his approach to ...