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 ...

Thanks to Hollywood, whenever I think of a Dictaphone, my imagination immediately jumps to a mid-20th-century office, Don ...

THE fertility of Mr. Edison's inventive genius has frequently been referred to recently, though the attractive and popular nature of the phonograph has had the effect of throwing some almost equally ...

With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

News of Thomas Edison’s (1847–1931) death on October 18, 1931, quickly reached colonial Korea. The Chosun Ilbo reported the obituary under the headline “Death of Edison, the Benefactor of Humanity and ...

When you think of the word 'inventor,' one person comes to mind: America's Thomas Edison. The countless items known as his inventions and his eccentric anecdotes have branded him as a 'lone, eccentric ...

Most of us are familiar with the adage "a day late and a dollar short." But few of us are familiar with a Thomas A. Edison's invention that was 120 years ahead of its time. In 1902, Edison announced ...

On Feb. 24, 1926, 79-year-old Thomas Alva Edison stepped up to the plate at the Philadelphia Athletics' spring training camp in Fort Myers and, after missing his first swing, rapped a major-league ...

Located a few blocks northeast of historic Milan Square, the house was built by Edison’s father in the early 1840s. Though Samuel Edison was in the lumber and shingle business, the house was ...