October 21 has been a day marked by significant events that have shaped our world across centuries and continents.Turning ...

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, Ohio ...

The world's most famous inventors are household names. As we all know, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, and Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. Except ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

Thomas Edison's genius was so much a part of the fabric of American life by the late 1870s that when a journalist claimed Edison invented a machine that could turn air, water and earth into food for ...

Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 158th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass ...

DALLAS -- Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs that he perfected sold for more than $60,000 at auction on Saturday. The keys sold for ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Here’s a bright idea: Bring an actor portraying America’s iconic inventor Thomas Edison to Huntsville, one of the hotbeds of inventive research. Even better? Bring this Thomas ...

Thomas Edison seated beside a phonograph in 1921. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need ...