This ingenious contraption, built by his mechanic, successfully played back Edison reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” a groundbreaking achievement in sound technology. Stay in the know with our free ...

Andrew Carnegie built the steel industry in America, becoming one of the wealthiest individuals of his era. Later in life, he dedicated much of his fortune to philanthropy, funding libraries, ...

Stroll through a historic, opulent shopping center in the Midwest that is dripping with Old World elegance. You can even book ...

Here are 50 illuminating facts about the Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade, its long Fort Myers history and its namesake, inventor Thomas Edison.

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a ...

It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named after specific people). But it is an accident that the Grammys sound like ...

The Statue of Liberty doesn’t have origins in America. The people of France gifted it to us, and since then, … Continue ...

Edison is the embodiment of the method of specialised ... In quick succession came a series of innovations in telegraphy and telephony, the phonograph, photography, and in all that appertained ...

A judge ordered Southern California Edison to preserve data, equipment and evidence about the origins of the Eaton fire. Several homeowners have sued the utility company, alleging its equipment ...