This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

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 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 ...

Born 166 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime. Although the man from Milton ...

Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor unlike any throughout history—and his impact can still be felt in your everyday life. Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, Edison's inventions ...

Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development in the way people answer the telephone. Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world ...

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 ...

Thomas Edison is best known for his contributions ... affordable and durable homes made entirely of poured concrete. Edison's invention of a single-pour system for concrete construction did ...

that Edison's work on the lightbulb depended on the contributions of others, and (2) that his success was linked to the commercialization of a product more than its actual invention. Thomas Edison ...