Annotated designs drawn by inventor Thomas Edison to improve his first ever electric lightbulb have emerged for sale for £90,000. The scientist, who is often credited with perfecting the carbon ...

Before electric headlights came along, early cars used an ingenious lighting method borrowed from horse-drawn carriages.

These Edison Lamps aren’t using any modern LED technology, but they sure capture the look of the era from which the lightbulb came quite nicely—something refreshingly simple Starting at $205, the ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When many people imagine an inventor, they think of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). One of the most prolific inventors ...

Chandeliers can be pretty classy if they’re done right, but they can also take up a lot of space and gather a lot of dust. What someone should do is make a tiny chandelier, and encase it in a light ...

Early Edison light bulbs were a thing of beauty, but they were also terribly inefficient. Modern LED bulbs are much more efficient, but they aren’t always beautiful. Luke Anderson, a product designer ...

New York 2013: designers Young & Battaglia debuted a glass pendant lamp with a tiny chandelier inside for design brand Mineheart at ICCF last month. A miniature brass chandelier sits within a ...

Phonographs were invented in 1877. The early versions had one needle for recording and another needle for playing. The music was recorded on tinfoil-coated cylinders using a needle to make tiny lines ...

A COMMUNICATION in yesterday's Daily News, from a New York correspondent of that paper, gives a glowing, and to all appearance justifiably so, account of Mr. Edison's success in attaining a form of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When many people imagine an inventor, they think of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). One of the most prolific inventors ...