Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, in 1847, but raised in Port Huron, Michigan. His mother was a former school teacher who taught Edison reading, writing, and mathematics.

It may not come as a surprise that electric power generation, which Thomas Edison is widely credited as inventing, came out ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

Edison would fill thousands of notebooks with ideas for new inventions. By the end of his life, he would file more than 1,000 patents and transform the lives of millions around the globe.

arts entertainment Books Thomas Edison’s brilliant life, told in reverse A posthumous work by master biographer Edmund Morris gives credit to one of America’s greatest inventors.

Son says his collection includes 5,000 gramophones, 150,000 music albums, and 5,000 Edison inventions consisting of the lightbulb, phonograph, and an electric vehicle (over 100 years before Tesla).

<p>Feb. 11, 1847 to Oct. 18, 1931</p><p>Almost entirely self-educated, Thomas Alva Edison began experimenting in the cellar of his family home around the age of 10.</p><p>In 1914, it was announced ...

The Chamsori Gramophone Museum and Edison Science Museum in South Korea houses the most extensive collection of Thomas Edison inventions. Son Seong-Mok took over 65 years to amass his collection ...