When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a ...

Thomas Edison often gets credit for the invention of the light bulb, but a good argument can be made that they were around ...

A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

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STOCKBRIDGE — A warm fuzz pervades the image, issuing from a faint glow that sends flecks of color across the room. The source of the light — a lamp with fringes on its shades that almost resembles a ...

In his illuminating newest, Freeberg, a professor of humanities at the University of Tennessee, examines the social, technological, and political context surrounding the development of the electric ...