Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work.” — Thomas Edison ...

"Edison is always thinking," Dudley Nichols wrote. "That is one of the remarkable things about him." After more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Thomas Alva Edison's ...

The AI boom’s demand for electricity has spurred the tech industry’s fascination with nuclear power. - Lauren Petracca/Bloomberg News A nuclear-power startup said it has found a workaround for the ...

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Alva Edison used this line to capture a practical truth: bright ideas matter, but they are only the start. Edison, who ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the youngest of Nancy and Samuel Edison’s seven children, was born Thursday, Feb. 11, 1847, in Milan, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A graduate student discovered a new way to generate a highly sought-after variety of carbon, graphene, by studying a century-old Thomas Edison patent ...

Scientists have successfully resurrected and supercharged a forgotten battery design from Thomas Edison, turning a 120-year-old concept into a modern pack capable of charging in mere seconds and with ...

But one possible partial solution to this energy shortfall could be found in a theory Thomas Edison first floated at the turn of the 20th century. A coalition of researchers from several countries, ...

We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled programming on gentrification to bring you this Black History Month profile on Lewis H. Latimer, the African-American renaissance man who in the late 19th ...