With an industrial look and durable design, the modern Edison light bulb is a popular choice when it comes to lighting spaces in the home, whether adorning a bathroom vanity, illuminating a kitchen or ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve in ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

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 ...

That isn’t a direct quote from Thomas Alva Edison, legendary inventor of the incandescent light bulb. But to Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, a historical novel released last month, ...

Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

Hit up the lighting aisle of any big box hardware store these days and you’ll probably find a variety of Edison bulbs — modern bulbs meant to evoke the bare, complicated tungsten filament bulbs from ...

They say that everything old is new again, and when it comes to lighting, vintage Edison bulbs are lighting the way to a new old trend. Along the streets of downtown Lititz, this old-fashioned trend ...

140 years after its invention, the Edison light bulb is having another moment. Now Edison-style bulbs are the center of a new lawsuit. The University of California Santa Barbara is suing five major ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...