The light bulb, the iconic symbol of the “bright idea,” contributed a great deal more than its association with creativity. Over the centuries, the invention has undoubtedly saved countless lives.

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with the aim of making graphene, rather than light. They succeeded, and they ...

Thomas Edison is known as the 'Wizard of Menlo Park.' His name is strongly linked to technologies that changed modern life, ...

TL;DR: Thomas Edison's 1879 light bulb is typically remembered as a milestone in electrification, not as a precursor to modern quantum materials. Yet by reconstructing that lamp with contemporary ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University's James Tour in ACS ...

General Electric is saying goodbye to the light bulb. The conglomerate is shedding a struggling business founded by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. The deal marks the latest step in dismantling ...

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland − One of the world's great collectors of his kind was nervous, just a bit so. Chad Shapiro gradually turned up the juice on his nearly 140-year-old light bulb. Its filament ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...