THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan ... he has become the leading inventor in the world.” It is not far short of seventy years since the journalists of America raised ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve in ...

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A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

Thomas Edison was a man of firsts. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that he built the first movie studio in 1893 (called the Black Maria). Stocked with a staff of fellow know-it-alls ...

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs but rather will cure and prevent disease with ...

National Inventor’s Day honors inventors of the past, the creators of the present, and encourages the architects of the ...