In 1900, Thomas Edison was standing in lower Manhattan waiting to take a ferry back to Jersey City, N.J. The bustling, commercial neighborhood was overrun with horse-drawn carts. Edison, ever the ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

Thomas Edison's famous quote, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work," powerfully emphasizes ...

Thomas Edison, one of the world’s most successful inventors of the 19th century, illuminated the night by inventing the light bulb and a revolutionary electricity distribution system. That legacy is ...

On March 31, 1884, the then-Village of Newburgh became the second municipality in New York to receive electricity. The power originated at a generating plant put in place by Thomas Edison that was ...