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 ...

The Edison Fest celebrates Fort Myers's most famous winter resident, Thomas Edison. Here's more about the inventor best known ...

According to experts, Edison’s most important invention wasn’t patentable, but it could benefit modern-day banks and insurers trying to reinvent their digital capabilities. Thomas Edison is one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...