Below are six unusual Thomas Edison inventions you might not be aware of the “Wizard of Menlo Park” actually conjured up. 6 Lesser Known Thomas Edison inventions 1.

Wikipedia Born 167 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime.

Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific inventors who ever lived. During his lifetime, he was granted more than 1,000 patents in the U.S. alone. With that many inventions to his credit, there’s ...

THOMAS EDISON, the genius inventor generally credited with the creation of the lightbulb, may have been right about the power of napping, according to an astonishing new study.

The myth of the solitary inventor -- in 8 short stories The world's most famous inventors are household names. As we all know, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thomas Alva Edison came to Louisville in 1866, at the young age of 19, to work as a telegraph key operator. He landed a job with the Western Union located on Second and ...

Thomas Edison developed an interest in chemistry as a young boy while growing up in Michigan, and applications of chemistry were a common theme in many of his inventions. In 1876 Edison opened the ...