Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

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Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve in ...

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 ...

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Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

The transaction represented a symbolic closing to G.E.’s opening chapters in the second Industrial Revolution. By Michael Levenson More than 140 years after Thomas Edison and his assistants conducted ...

British inventors began experimenting with electric lighting in the 1830s, working on so-called arc lamps, while other scientists around the world focused on developing a functioning incandescent lamp ...

The city of Scranton took its first step toward earning its reputation as the Electric City on Dec. 6, 1880. On that date, electric lights were introduced at the Dickson Locomotive Works. This was ...