As I research my family history, preparing a book about my grandmother Madeleine Edison Sloane, “Edison’s Daughter,” I occasionally come across holiday pictures of Glenmont. This was my ...

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 ...

This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge. Timed to mark the 131st anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the lightbulb, ...

NEW DELHI: There are plenty of different trendy Edison bulb light ideas present which you can use to improve your lighting style. By making small variations in your home or office lighting, you can ...

One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way. The incandescent light bulb, ...

The nation’s top astronomers and professors traveled to the American West by railroad to catch the celestial occurrence on July 29, 1878, and to collect data and test new technologies. Congress funded ...

The transaction represented a symbolic closing to G.E.’s opening chapters in the second Industrial Revolution. By Michael Levenson More than 140 years after Thomas Edison and his assistants conducted ...

With the invention of an efficient incandescent light bulb in 1879, Thomas Edison made artificial illumination available to the masses. His innovation was so widely acclaimed that it came to symbolize ...

Timed to mark the 131st anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison—whose birthday is marked by a Google doodle today—General Electric on October 21 unveiled an illumination ...