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By mastering and mass-producing collaboration, innovation and acceleration, Edison and his team introduced one world-changing invention after another for decades.
Anniversary of the phonograph: Thomas Edison invention that changed the world This bizarre invention has almost definitely had a massive impact on your life – and you likely don’t even know ...
founder Jeff Bezos revealed his admiration for Thomas Edison and Walt Disney as his primary historical role models, highlighting qualities that shaped his approach to building one of America’s ...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper.
About the Program: The 2014 Gallery of Heroes school tour will offer local actors the opportunity to perform in The Invention of Edison. The spring tour will run from January through May 2014.
In 1887, Woods secured a patent for the induction telegraph, which allowed messages to be sent between moving trains and train stations. His discovery was a much-needed improvement to the ...
Hagley has nearly 5,000 patent models in its collection, making it the second-largest collection in a museum in the United States, according to press materials. Jury hopes Hagley getting featured ...
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 ...
Learn about Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor known for his revolutionary inventions like the light bulb, phonograph, and motion pictures.