With an industrial look and durable design, the modern Edison light bulb is a popular choice when it comes to lighting spaces in the home, whether adorning a bathroom vanity, illuminating a kitchen or ...

One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way. The incandescent light bulb, ...

That isn’t a direct quote from Thomas Alva Edison, legendary inventor of the incandescent light bulb. But to Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, a historical novel released last month, ...

Early Edison light bulbs were a thing of beauty, but they were also terribly inefficient. Modern LED bulbs are much more efficient, but they aren’t always beautiful. Luke Anderson, a product designer ...

EDISON – This summer, when the monument to Thomas Alva Edison on Christie Street reopens after two years of renovations, a small but symbolically significant change will take place. The 14-foot-tall ...

Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by himself. That's according to David Burkus, author of "The Myths of Creativity," who says ...

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland − One of the world's great collectors of his kind was nervous, just a bit so. Chad Shapiro gradually turned up the juice on his nearly 140-year-old light bulb. Its filament ...

This post originally appeared in Business Insider. Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by himself. That’s according to David ...

140 years after its invention, the Edison light bulb is having another moment. Now Edison-style bulbs are the center of a new lawsuit. The University of California Santa Barbara is suing five major ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Walk into The Edison Pub & Eatery, and you'll immediately see homages to inventor Thomas Edison. Prints of Edison's patents hang throughout the space, and the light bulbs he's famous ...

The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...