According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...
Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...
When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a ...
When researchers set out to rebuild Thomas Edison’s 1879 light bulb, they expected a history lesson, not a materials science ...
What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...
Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb. The device is capable of emitting elliptically polarized light, described as "twisted" ...
To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...
A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...
Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...
Before Edison’s system prevailed, Italian inventor Alessandro Cruto developed a light bulb praised for its clarity and ...