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 ...

On a winter day in 1895, a Quaker inventor brought his movie projector into the halls of the Franklin Institute and stunned its distinguished guests. The Phantoscope, as C. Francis Jenkins dubbed his ...

DALLAS -- Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs that he perfected sold for more than $60,000 at auction on Saturday. The keys sold for ...

On November 29, 1877, young Thomas Edison tested his newest invention the phonograph. It was the first time anyone had ...

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 ...

Growing up in Phillipsburg, Todd Tersigni spent a lot of time hanging out with friends in the Valley View section of town. Even as a kid, he knew it was a special neighborhood. A handful of streets ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

Thomas Edison is one of the most famous inventors in history. He had over 1,000 patents and countless inventions. Many of his inventions changed the world. But how different would our world look if he ...

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 ...

And that means here in Upstate New York, the harsh weather and threat of severe snow and ice storms and dangerous, life-threatening blizzard conditions like what Erie County and Western New York ...