Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When many people imagine an inventor, they think of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). One of the most prolific inventors ...

Picture this: a rotating Christmas tree aglow with electric lights in 1882 New York, thanks to Edward Hibberd Johnson's ...

Edison surrounded himself with inventors, engineers, and machinists — then turned their work into commercial dominance. While ...

Erwin Perzy built and repaired surgical instruments for local physicians in Vienna, Austria. In 1900, one of his clients ...

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to ...

I've completely swapped my home over to LED lights, and for the most part, I love it. The energy savings are real, and I'm a sucker for all the smart color changing tes. But my biggest grievance is ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Four months ago at the Rawhide Ballpark in Visalia, California, Tucsonan Dave Duncan was inducted into the California League Hall of Fame. You wonder what took so long? Duncan hit 46 home runs for the ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, ten-year-old David Jonathan Sturgeon was in bed at his home at 4408 West 34th Avenue, too sick to join his family around the Christmas tree. David Dwight “D.D.” Sturgeon, a ...