A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally famous inventor in his early 30s, set out to create an incandescent light bulb that provided enough light to illuminate a home but would last ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy invented the first effective electric lamp, opening the door for this technology to be used in ...

When it comes to new innovations in music, we really have come a long way in a very short space of time. But what was the ...

Thomas A. Edison, noted inventor, is the chief actor in a special Community Fund moving picture which is being shown at all Pittsfield theaters.

On Oct. 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American to become a saint.

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 ...