General Electric - the company which formed ... The US conglomerate, co-founded by Thomas Edison, is opening a new chapter in its history on Tuesday: its break-up into three independent entities ...

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.

Edison was encouraged to read and developed a strong interest in reading, in subjects ranging from Western history to general science ... nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

a brilliant engineer from Connecticut who spends one frustrating year working for Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey, before leaving and going on to invent the electric motor that would be used on ...

Before there was Apple, Medtronic, or Tesla, there was General Electric (GE). Created in 1892 from the combination of Thomas Edison’s Edison General Electric and two other competitors ...

The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.