Electric lights already existed on a streetlight scale when, on this day in 1879, Edison tested the one he’s famous for. Though he didn’t come up with the whole concept, his light bulb was the ...

In Wyoming, as Edison bunked with Fox, he learned how to master the art of public relations, a skill he would need as he entered the race to create an electric light bulb. In September 1878 ...

Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty ... 400 patents in just six years. That rapid clip made it known as the "invention factory ...

Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, the first practical electric incandescent lamp. The light bulb creates light ...