At his Menlo Park laboratory, in New Jersey, USA, Edison demonstrated the first practical incandescent light bulb. It could glow for hours without burning out. A newspaper reporter dubbed him 'The ...

Light bulbs have been the standard mode of illuminating homes in the United States for more than a century after replacing ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about ... most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.

Edison got serious about electric lighting ... Of course, this inefficiency is why there’s been a move to ban incandescent bulbs in favor of LEDs, fluorescents, and other technologies.

Thomas Edison doth murder sleep ... But I guess it’s logical that the inventor of the incandescent light bulb would consider sleep to be his ultimate competition. -Andy O’Connell Gretchen ...