When Thomas Edison finally hung up his lab coat, it still had acid burns from chemistry experiments carried out at the U.S. inventor's West Orange laboratory in New Jersey. Repairs helped erased ...

“Sorry to bother,” Jed murmured. “But I think I maybe made another mixup.” Thomas Edison squinted at the boy. He’d known for some time that Jed was unintelligent. But lately he’d begun ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1431059/1431060" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> NPR's ...

Thomas Edison's door key to the 19th century lab in New Jersey where he invented the phonograph goes up for auction this weekend, along with lightbulbs he perfected. Six keys in all from the ...

Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas Edison's laboratory, just behind the cot in which the great inventor napped, a trove of wax cylinder phonograph records has been brought back to life ...

Thomas Edison's door key to the 19th century lab in New Jersey where he invented the phonograph goes up for auction this weekend, along with lightbulbs he perfected. Six keys in all from the ...