A history of the Edison Company the pioneering film production company begun by Thomas A Edison Included are more than 140 complete films produced by the company between 1891 and 1918 along with ...

Special effects have always been a major part of cinema history, and the very first instance of their use came in 1895, in a film produced by inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison. These days ...

Born 166 years ago on Feb. 11, 1847, Thomas Edison was an incredibly successful inventor, scientist, and businessman, accumulating 1,093 patents in his lifetime. Although the man from Milton ...

Visitors can see it, four days a week, when they tour the Thomas Edison National Historical Park, the museum that evolved out of the inventor's ... these snippets of film. Most were not exhibited ...

From the inventor's New Jersey film studio, the delight of cats doing things on film was discovered early in 1894 National Treasure: The Mold Behind the Miracle of Penicillin (04:55) The ...

Thomas Edison has 1,093 patents to his name. He and his associates worked long hours every day, six days a week at his Menlo Park laboratory, with the goal of developing "a minor invention every ...

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison ...

that Edison's work on the lightbulb depended on the contributions of others, and (2) that his success was linked to the commercialization of a product more than its actual invention. Thomas Edison ...