Thomas Edison’s “innovation factory” turned out more than 1,000 patents. Modern leaders can steal his formula for maximizing creativity at work. Imagine a lab where cutting-edge innovation ...

It’s no secret that visitors to Schenectady ... the hallway of the General Electric Research Laboratory, the facility co-founded by Thomas Edison that gave the “Electric City” its name.

Thomas Edison developed an interest in chemistry at a young age, and applications of chemistry were a common theme in many of his inventions. Edison opened his West Orange, N.J., laboratory complex in ...

Thomas Edison was a man of firsts ... When Spanish dancer Carmencita brought her saucy act to Edison’s lab, she became the first woman ever to appear in front of a motion picture camera.