How do we define struggle? Is it a determined effort to hold our heads above submerging water? Is it a desperate gasping for breath when oxygen in our lungs is running into a decrescendo? Can we call ...

Madeleine’s father was no ordinary man: he was Thomas Alva Edison. You might now be wondering ... and Warren de la Rue had presented their models before Swan. Edison’s major contribution was his ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878 ...

Thomas comes from the Hebrew word ta’om meaning “twin.” The English spelling comes from the Latin translation of the Greek, ...

THE name of no great man of science or inventor is so familiar to the “man in the street” as that of Thomas Alva ... “Edison the Napoleon of Modern Times,” “Let there be Light ...

Thousands of Southwest Florida students compete in two science-based fairs: The Edison Festival of Light Regional Inventors Fair and the Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Science & Engineering Fair.

Thousands of Southwest Florida students compete in two science-based fairs: The Edison Festival of Light Regional Inventors Fair and the Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Science & Engineering Fair.

working alongside the likes of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison. The inventor, known for his work to improve the development of the electric incandescent light bulb and the early ...

once had a very famous resident. Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the first commercially viable electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture camera, lived there as a young man in 1863.

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Background via Library of Congress In the autumn of 1878, Thomas Alva Edison had a problem. He hadn’t invented the light bulb—yet. Or, to put it more precisely ...