Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.

On his doctor’s orders, Thomas Edison was looking to escape the cold weather of the Northeast when he came to Florida for the winter. In 1885, he purchased a plot of land along the Caloosahatchee for ...

From the inventor's New Jersey film studio, the delight of cats doing things on film was discovered early in 1894 What Does a Cowboy Look Like? (03:05) The Gory Origins of Valentine's Day (02:50 ...

Thomas Edison was a man of firsts. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that he built the first movie studio in 1893 (called the Black Maria). Stocked with a staff of fellow know-it-alls ...

Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It completely transformed homes, cities, and industries worldwide, going on ...

THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, and died at West Orange, New Jersey, on October 18, 1931, at the age of eighty-four. Many years before Edison ...

Southern California Edison claims there were no electrical ... providing the competent ignition source that ignited the Creek fire,” wrote Thomas Guzman, an investigator for the Forest Service.

DRIVEN by his deafness to read his way through the Detroit Public Library, Edison wrote long afterwards that he had found that almost any book would book entertainment or instruction. This ...

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