The world's most famous inventors are household names. As we all know, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, and Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. Except ...

could easily fill a book, and that's the case with "Edison and the Rise of Innovation" (Sterling Signature, $29.95). Written by Leonard DeGraaf, archivist of the Thomas Edison National Park in West ...

Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

Exoskeletal body armor designed for protecting guards in prison riots. Infinitely gyroscoping bowls designed for spill-prone toddlers. High-powered pneumatic pogo sticks designed for… people who are ...

But there’s one man – and a very strange invention we would likely never have listened to music without – who we have to thank for it all. The story of sound recording, and reproduction, began 143 ...

For the past few weeks, I have featured today's leading corporations and how their vision, approach and growth strategies have embodied the Immigrant Perspective on Business Leadership. Over the ...

The snuff movie. Edison had a thing for watching things get killed—human or animial—primarily to show how dangerous the rival Westinghouse alternating current system was compared to his own direct ...