Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It ...

At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

Back in 1912, Thomas ... problem because Edison had already invented the alkaline storage battery in 1901 and spent years perfecting it before placing it in the 1912 Edison electric car.

In 1874, they filed a Canadian patent for a similar bulb. Ultimately, they failed to commercialize it, but they sold their patent to Thomas Edison. Edison got serious about electric lighting in 1878.

As Southern California Edison fights claims that it caused the deadly Eaton fire, the company is lobbying state regulators to ...

just a few years after Thomas Edison patented the incandescent light bulb and launched the electric power industry. Today, the utility is the main business line of Rosemead-based 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 ...

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 ... and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.