With AI, technology will continue to transform the process of innovation and creative experimentation. Can lessons from our ...

On Dec. 31, 1879, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electric incandescent lights for the public by illuminating some 100 ...

The wheel, invented around 3500 BCE, revolutionised transportation and agriculture, enabling the movement of goods and people. Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, the printing ...

ANN ARBOR—Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics ...

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It turns out, we might owe a big “thank you” to none other than Thomas Edison himself. Back in 1880, as we all know, Edison introduced the first practical incandescent light bulb—an invention that ...

In January 1883, three years before Grace in Baldwinsville, Thomas Edison brought electric ... Along with installing his incandescent light bulb, Edison installed a 30-bulb “electrolier ...

Want more good ideas? Be More Like Thomas Edison. So take a look around your workplace. What do you see? Serious faces? Beige walls? Heads-down productivity? This may be the ideal environment for ...

More reports are coming out of Massachusetts about how Worcester Polytechnic Institute engineers are improving on Thomas Edison-era science. The team is specifically focused on iron-alkaline ...

The Mirror and the Light, which aired on Sunday night (December 15). The critically acclaimed historical drama, inspired by Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novels, chronicles the life of Thomas ...

Within the span of less than a week, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again shown how their ideology dictates their legal judgments, often in hypocritical directions. By contrast ...