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The New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison perfected some of his most famous inventions is reopening with a wealth of restored material.
A fire in suburban Detroit has damaged a boarding house built for employees of inventor Thomas Edison that was among the first buildings to get electric lighting.
A 107-year-old man who once turned down a job offer from Thomas Edison has been chosen to lead a parade at the Massachusetts prep school he graduated from 90 years ago. C. Yardley Chittick of Concord is the last surviving member of the class of 1918 at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.
The city that Thomas Edison electrified 125 years ago has completed the transition from direct to alternating current, helping to erase the vestiges of a feud between giants of invention.
Thomas Edison's invention factory in West Orange is set to reopenGenerations of children who made the pilgrimage to Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange used to be confined to the first floor of the main laboratory where Edison punched in at a time clock for 80-hour weeks and took naps on a small bed in his library.
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Centenarians share enlightening encounters with EdisonTwo centenarians recall their encounters long ago with Thomas A. Edison.
The Next Great CompanyWhat will be the next great company? I don't have a definitive answer (and if I did I probably would be too busy mortgaging the house to have time to share it).
Annals of InnovationThe New Yorker published this article concerning innovation which proves the theory that the patent system is ineffective.
French recording may be world's first''At first listen, the grainy high-pitched warble doesn't sound like much, but scientists say the French recording from 1860 is the oldest known recorded human voice. ADVERTISEMENT
Recorded Sound? Yeah, Edison Didn't Invent That EitherWhenever we get deep into a discussion about patents, it doesn't take long before someone tosses up the example of Thomas Edison as someone who proves that patents were necessary for innovation.
Researchers find song recorded before Edison's phonographFor more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound.
Edison, Not As Great As Science Class Taught UsJanuary 4th,1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was only to Edison's own direct current.
Edison's Quest to Talk to the Dead As the holder of one thousand and ninety-three patents, one might be tempted to believe that Edison was a hard-nosed man of science, utterly dedicated to the cold, hard truths of technology.
Why are they taking my light bulbs away?The incandescent light bulb, one of the most venerable inventions of its era but deemed too inefficient for our own, will be phased off the U.S. market beginning in 2012 under the new energy law just approved by Congress.
Power transmission | Where the wind blows | Economist.comBuilding a direct-current grid would make electricity easier to transmit over very long distances. Power generated from wind turbines could be stored in far away places then used to generate base-load power.
Hear the names Thomas Edison and Henry Ford and immediately descriptive words and phrases like beachcomber and camping buddiesEven captains of industry and geniuses need some fun in the sun
Tesla: The Electric WizardOn the 150th anniversary of the birth of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, Mark Pilkington explores the enigma of the man who lit up the world.
Why We Shouldn't Be Surprised That Chimps Hunt With SpearsChimps are capable of inventing tools that are suited to the resources that are available to them (in other words, suited to both the kinds of materials they have available for tool manufacture and the kinds of foods they might want to obtain with those tools).
General Electric and Google are the same company... Sort ofA comparison between Thomas Edison's General Electric and Google. Even though there is a hundred years separating the two, there are some erie similarities.
Electricity broadcast through the air may someday run your homeMore than a century ago, Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla dreamed of broadcasting electrical energy through the airwaves. Instead, to their surprise, a grid of metallic wires sprang up and encircled the globe, distributing power to homes and businesses nearly everywhere.
The Prestige: I Can Admire It, but I Don't Really like it - Associated ContentAn objective, insightful review of The Prestige, a "chilling magical movie." Codie Leonsch-Hartwig is the author and it originally appeared on her Web site, Prime Movie Reviews www.pmr-reviews.com
Is DC the power to solve heat problems?Thomas Edison lost the war when it came to his advocacy of direct current as the best way to distribute electricity. But his ideas are now winning battles as a solution to growing power and cooling problems in the data center.
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