This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

Harnessing the spirit of one of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs, this persistent stripling was determined not to let a ...