At just 22 years old, Edison got his first patent for a improved telegraph, a version capable of recording messages on a ...

After Benjamin Franklin was credited with discovering electricity in the mid-18th century, the 19th century saw numerous ...

Now he was back. He'd come to witness the unveiling of a detailed, full-scale replica of The Black Maria, the world's first ...

The first patent issued for an invention by an American inventor was in 1790 for an improvement to potash production, and it ...

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A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and “the stuff of nightmares.” Before Halloween, the National Park Service posted ...

When it comes to new innovations in music, we really have come a long way in a very short space of time. But what was the ...

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

In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally ... One of Menlo Park’s first giant successes was the invention of the phonograph in 1877. Instead of the vinyl disc we’re so familiar ...