Edison is one of the most successful inventors in history. But did you know that he got his start thanks to a good deed performed when he was a teenager?

125 years ago in 1899, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: Thomas Alva Edison, the wizard of the electrical world, was in the city for about five hours on Monday. The ...

Necessity is the mother of invention... and you’ll find perhaps no greater tribute to that notion than at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Today, we’re stepping inside Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park ...

Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison were the twin wizards of the first decades of the 20th century in America. They were paragons of industrial ingenuity and wealth—Ford was the richest man in the ...

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