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America needs its heroes, and it’s no different when it comes to innovation. “From Thomas Edison to Iron Man, you have this idea of single combat warriors working feverishly in the threadbare den of solitude,” scientist Eric Isaacs said at a Washington conference Monday, dropping a reference to the Marvel superhero who discovers a boundless source of clean energy. But it’s rarely the case that ...

dsinc writes "Forbes' Alex Knapp writes about the Tesla idolatry and confusing his genius for godhood: 'Tesla wasn't an ignored god-hero. Thomas Edison wasn't the devil. They were both brilliant, strong-willed men who helped build our modern world. They both did great things and awful things. They were both brilliantly right about some things and just as brilliantly wrong about others. They had...

These delightful boxing felines were equipped with miniature boxing gloves and set to brawling by none other than legendary douchebag Thomas Edison, as a means of promoting his newfangled moving picture device in 1894. Thomas Edison - 1894 Boxing cats (Thanks, Isaak!)

Mitt Romney went after President Barack Obama on Monday for supposedly banning incandescent light bulbs. But the legislation in question was passed during the administration of President George W. Bush and did not ban those types of bulbs. "The government would have banned Thomas Edison’s light bulb," Romney declared at the University of Chicago. "Oh yeah, Obama’s regulators actually did."R...

New York Magazine's Daily Intel does the legwork and finds that, contrary to Obama's assertion that our 19th president dismissed the telephone as useless, Rutherford B. Hayes was quite enthralled by the device.  The curator of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center responds to Obama's quip: She then read aloud a newspaper article from June 29, 1877, which describes Hayes's delight upon f...

Thomas Edison once said that “genius” is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. In the world of technology startups, that 99% involves a hec…

Sehr schön gemachtes Video! Ich hab zwar schon viel über Thomas Edison gewusst - aber dass er auch Betonmöbel erfunden hat, war mir neu. The History of Thomas Edison from Jeremiah Warren on Vimeo.(via Vergangenheitsstaub)Zum Beitrag im Blog »

Vergangene Woche wäre Thomas Alva Edison, unter anderem Erfinder des Phonographen und der Glühlampe, 165 Jahre alt geworden. Jeremiah Warren hat sich den Anlass zu Herzen genommen, um Edisons Biograf...

One of Edison's assistants imprinted the sounds of wax cylinders in 1889 and 1890. They were only found a few years ago and just recently converted to digital format.

Alexander Graham Bell. Thomas Edison. Marie Curie. Steve Jobs. Which of these people would you consider the greatest innovator of all time? A few weeks ago the Lemelson-MIT Program put a similar question to 1,000 young adults ages 16 to 25, and stodgy old purists can breathe a sigh of relief. Thomas Edison trumped everyone. "Though part of the 'Apple Generation,' many young Americans surprising...

A PERSONAL cheque that Abraham Lincoln wrote the day before he was assassinated is among those that were rediscovered by an Ohio bank. The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports that 70 cheques were found in a vault at Huntington Bank's Columbus headquarters, including checks signed by George Washington, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Thomas Edison. Some are being displayed at branches throughout ...

Topsy the elephant is a killer and now she must pay the ultimate price. Enter Thomas Edison, a man who knows an opportunity when he sees one.

Thomas Edison and his direct current, or DC, technology lost the so-called War of the Currents to alternating current, or AC, in the 1890s after it became clear that AC was far more efficient at transmitting electricity over long distances... from the New York Times (Registration Required)