(WHSV) - Almost 150 years ago on Feb. 19, 1878, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. The phonograph was what made the modern music industry possible, according to History.com. It allowed for both ...

The Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade returns Saturday, Feb. 21, to downtown Fort Myers. Here’s what you need to know about the 2026 event. It’s one of the biggest night parades in the ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Technology and entertainment in ...

"Edison is always thinking," Dudley Nichols wrote. "That is one of the remarkable things about him." After more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A graduate student discovered a new way to generate a highly sought-after variety of carbon, graphene, by studying a century-old Thomas Edison patent ...

Today, we celebrate our Nation’s most prolific inventor and a man who never stopped pushing the spirit of American innovation: the legendary Thomas Edison. On what would have been his 179th birthday, ...

The battery won't power cars as the famous inventor intended, but it's still got a lot of potential. Reading time 3 minutes Great minds often think ahead of their time. This was certainly true for ...