On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

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Edison was one of the first to grasp the importance of chemical knowledge when conducting industrial research and development. There was more chemical knowhow employed in the development of the ...

Edison patented the incandescent light bulb 145 years ago, on January 27, 1880. Edison didn't come up with the idea of ...

In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and built the first power station on Pearl Street in Manhattan in 1882, while the German inventor Werner von Siemens installed the first electric elevator ...

Eureka Edison tries hundreds of filaments for his electric light before settling on carbonized cotton thread, which emits a brilliant and lasting glow. These are accurate, if exaggerated ...

On Jan. 19, Edison crews also briefly reenergized the transmission lines over Eaton Canyon and "observed a small flash of white light upon each re-energization." The flashes occurred on equipment that ...