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

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

In 1877, Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine capable of recording and playing sounds. Initially, he thought of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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