More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...
According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...
Before Edison’s system prevailed, Italian inventor Alessandro Cruto developed a light bulb praised for its clarity and ...
A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...
Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...
Ernest Freeberg is head of the history department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and the author of "The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America." Professor ...
Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of light bulbs. We walk into a dark room and flick a light switch and don’t think ...