According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

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

Annotated designs drawn by inventor Thomas Edison to improve his first ever electric lightbulb have emerged for sale for £90,000. The scientist, who is often credited with perfecting the carbon ...

Edison, N.J. - 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 ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...