A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

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

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Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

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 ...

As Thomas Hughes relates, "special trains from New York and elsewhere brought the prominent and the plain to view four houses illuminated, streets lit, and the laboratory glowing" (30). Equally ...

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 ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in MIlan ... One of Menlo Park’s first giant successes was the invention of the phonograph in 1877. Instead of the vinyl disc we’re so familiar with ...

Now he was back. He'd come to witness the unveiling of a detailed, full-scale replica of The Black Maria, the world's first ...