In the 1880s, Granville T. Woods won patent battles to protect his inventions, including a system to allow moving trains to ...

If you thought Elon Musk’s favorite question to ask job applicants was tough, you should see the employment test devised by Thomas Edison. When he wasn't busy inventing the light bulb or phonograph, ...

Thomas Edison was way ahead of his time when he predicted, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...