death.School children look at Nikola Tesla's coreless transformer displayed at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade December 17, 2011.(Reuters) - At the start of the 20th century, inventors Thomas Alva Edison and Nikola Tesla clashed in the "war of the currents". To highlight the dangers of his rival's system, Edison even electrocuted an elephant. The animal died in vain; it was Tesla's system and not Edison's...
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David Sloane says his great-grandfather, Thomas Edison, would have liked efficient bulbsHe says new efficiency law to take effect January 1, was in line with Edison's futurismHe says Edison would have disdained Congress' recent vote to defund law for nine monthsDavid Edward Edison Sloane is a professor of English at the University of New Haven and the great-grandson of the inventor Thomas A. Edison....
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have recovered an audio recording, made by inventor Thomas Edison, from an artifact that historians believe is the earliest surviving talking toy doll record.The artifact is a ring-shaped cylinder phonograph record made of solid metal, preserved by the National Park Service at Thomas Edison National Historical Park.Phonograph inventor Thomas Edison made the record during late 1888 in West Orange, New...
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have been able to make a 123-year-old talking doll made by Thomas Edison sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star once again....
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Thomas Edison's lab coat was worn while the inventor worked in his chemistry lab.Edison's projection screen for showing films hangs (rolled up) from the second floor of the library in the West Orange laboratory.When Thomas Edison finally hung up his lab coat, it still had acid burns from chemistry experiments carried out at the U.S. inventor's West Orange laboratory in New Jersey. Repairs helped erased...
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"Stay hungry", he said, and "stay foolish". Both of these are adjectives that describe me admirably, and his admonition to stay both was heartening.But he has attained secular sainthood faster than you can download a season of "Mad Men" onto your iPad 2.Now he's up there edging Edison out of the pantheon. "Thomas Alva who?" we say. Isn't he the one who said, "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99...
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Oct. 11, 1868, a young and ambitious telegrapher from northern Ohio applied for a patent for an invention, a gadget he called an electrographic vote-recorder, which he hoped would be used to tally votes cast by members of the House of Representatives. Regrettably, the House declined to buy the recorder. But 21-year-old Thomas Alva Edison was unbowed by this failed business venture, and three months...
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Otto van Bismarck can be heard for the first time in over a century, as a wax cylinder recording of his voice has been released.The recording was made in 1889 by a technician working for Thomas Edison and has now been restored using digital technology by the Thomas Edison National Historical Park museum.The Otto Von Bismarck Foundation in Germany, which believed the recordings to be lost, has called...
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Editor's Note: This column was originally published on Aug. 11, 2007 under the headline: Is Apple's Steve Jobs the Thomas Edison of Our Era? He is, and always will be.On the first anniversary of his death, here are a select number of the best letters written to Apple's visionary, Steve Jobs.For those under the age of well, let's just say for those who recently graduated from college, Thomas Edison...
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A 12-second recording of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' from the first-ever talking doll could also be the first-ever commercial recording, experts have said.The recently-recovered recording, captured on a ring-shaped cylinder phonograph, was produced for Thomas Edison's failed talking-doll business venture in 1888.The recording eventually found its way to Jerry Fabris, museum curator of the Thomas...
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