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.

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 ...

The Victorian electric fan bears the engraving of a young Edison and an inscription. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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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 ...

In February 1881, Thomas Edison established the headquarters of the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City. Edison's goal of electrifying Lower Manhattan had stalled for two years while ...