The discoverer of the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the quadruplex telegraph, among other things, is one of the first known vegetarians.

Many of us know that Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor of the incandescent lamp, phonograph and one of the earliest movie cameras. Some of us who studied the Wizard from Menlo Park during our school ...

“IT is estimated,” so Mr. Francis Arthur Jones tells us, “that if everything that has ever been written and published about Edison were collected and re-published in book form, it would make a library ...

When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a ...

We owe many of the electronic luxuries that we take for granted to Thomas Alva Edison. With 1,093 U.S. patents to his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, he is ...

Thomas Alva Edison’s quote, “We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present ”about dissatisfaction and progress emphasizes a timeless ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thomas Alva Edison came to Louisville in 1866, at the young age of 19, to work as a telegraph key operator. He landed a job with the Western Union located on Second and West ...

For the past few weeks, I have featured today's leading corporations and how their vision, approach and growth strategies have embodied the Immigrant Perspective on Business Leadership. Over the ...