Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which brought ...

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 ...

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland − One of the world's great collectors of his kind was nervous, just a bit so. Chad Shapiro gradually turned up the juice on his nearly 140-year-old light bulb. Its filament ...

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

You can't buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. With a few exceptions, the bulbs – patented by Thomas Edison in 1880 and a common fixture in American homes for more than a century – have officially ...

Ever since the days of Thomas Edison, light bulbs have been the standard method of brightening our lives. But the one thing all light bulbs have in common is that they cease to work when you least ...

On Thursday, presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that a Black man had invented the light bulb, not “a White guy named Edison.” Biden was at a community meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the site of ...

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, ...