Fact checked by Jared Ecker Reviewed by JeFreda R. Brown Since the mid-19th century, America has been at the forefront of ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

Estimating patents' financial gain can be difficult, but they are often foundational building blocks toward broader commercial success. This is true of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who ...

Born 166 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime. Although the man from Milton ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in MIlan ... In 1869, when he was just 22 years old, Edison filed his first patent for an electric vote recorder — a device he soon discovered for which ...

From the very beginning, the movie industry was controlled by patents and lawsuits. Thomas Edison, an inventor of early cameras and projectors, and a savvy business man, was quick to patent his ...

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 ...