While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

The Wright brothers’ 1903 invention enabled faster travel, shrinking distances and making the world more connected. Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, penicillin became the first antibiotic, ...

HYDERABAD: Do you remember learning about Thomas Alva Edison in school and how he invented the light bulb? While some focus ...

National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA): A few facts about the origin of electric Christmas lights - Information ...

This allowed the state to earn trillions from the production of oil, which peaked at four million barrels per day. The second was Thomas Edison’s patent on film making. Edison was based in New York ...

Few people know that a Black inventor named Lewis Latimer worked with Thomas Edison and played a role in improving the light ...

Suffice it to say, Johnson’s lights were a hit, and the Edison General Electric Company was the first to mass-produce ...

Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of ...

The signal the holiday season has truly begun is often the lighting of a community Christmas tree. Municipal Christmas trees ...

The May-Stringer House in Brooksville is like the Victorian era’s answer to a haunted house ride at Disney World – minus the animatronics and plus a whole lot of authentic creaks and whispers. This ...

Ludlow, Kentucky, is situated just west of Cincinnati, and in the early 1800s the Green Line streetcar company was the area’s ...