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

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 ...

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 ...

"We are developing a new strategy to revitalize iron battery chemistry." Scientists optimistic about finding solution to one of the biggest problems with batteries — here's how it could change the ...

She came out to play — and petrify. A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users ...

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 ...

New research into the moments between wakefulness and sleep could bring hope for insomniacs and even make us more creative problem-solvers ...

From the inventor's New Jersey film studio, the delight of cats doing things on film was discovered early in 1894 The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe May Never Be Solved (03:41) Ouija Board ...

A free historical program will be offered at Darden Mill Friday telling the story of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford’s trip with ...

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 ...