Henry Ford handed the first example of his new 1928 Model A to Thomas Edison, his friend and mentor. Edison did not keep the ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on October, 19, 1931.) Thomas A. Edison perfected his first invention to save himself work. He was 16, and a telegraph operator. Every hour he was required to ...

Thomas Alva Edison was a great inventor. He imagined a future completely different from the present in which he lived, and had the genius to make it happen. (He was also the hero of an unsuccessful ...

On October 18, 1931, the inventor who changed the way people use electricity, listen to sound and watch moving images died ...

A collection of recently digitized home videos published by the Thomas Edison National Historical Park and Library of Congress includes the last known footage of Thomas Edison. The inventor and ...

On the night Thomas Edison was laid to rest, Oct. 21, 1931, the lights went dark in Syracuse for one minute. For just a moment, the city fell into an eerie stillness, streetlights went out and homes ...

THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, and died at West Orange, New Jersey, on October 18, 1931, at the age of eighty-four. Many years before Edison's ...

Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West ...