selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. In 1928 the Menlo Park buildings were moved from their original site in New Jersey to Dearborn where they were reconstructed ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Here are some illuminating facts about the parade, its long history and its namesake, inventor Thomas Edison ... in 1953 to honor Edison's invention of the commercial light bulb.