Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests Thomas Edison’s early light bulbs may have unknowingly produced graphene more than a century ago. (CREDIT: ...

With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

The nation’s top astronomers and professors traveled to the American West by railroad to catch the celestial occurrence on July 29, 1878, and to collect data and test new technologies. Congress funded ...

Thomas Edison’s original patents surrounding the light bulb and an archive of 37 original British Patent Letters related to the incandescent lamp have been sold at auction for US$75,000. Though Thomas ...

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 ...