Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally famous inventor in his early 30s, set out to create an incandescent light bulb that provided enough light to illuminate a home but would last ...

In Britain, too, the popular press saw Edison as a mixture of scientist and magician. H.G. Wells would have been aware of this mixed persona, perpetuated in numerous articles, as The Times of 31 ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history ... While popularly regarded as an inventor, Edison was an able applied chemist whose numerous inventions and businesses were enabled by his ...

Now he was back. He'd come to witness the unveiling of a detailed, full-scale replica of The Black Maria, the world's first ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- This semi-tropical little city where Thomas A. Edison made his winter home was in deep mourning today at news of the inventor's death in West Orange. It was here that Edison ...

Thomas A. Edison, noted inventor, is the chief actor in a special Community Fund moving picture which is being shown at all Pittsfield theaters.

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Before Halloween, the National Park Service posted a Facebook photo of the doll, on display at Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, NJ, one of the famed inventor’s earliest ...