The Latest Breaking News from Thomas Edison

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The US conglomerate General Electric, co-founded more than 130 years ago by Thomas Edison, is opening a new chapter in its history on Tuesday: its break-up into three independent entities which will then concentrate on their disparate core businesses.

One argument put forward in defence of fossil fuels is that they were a historical necessity, because there was no other viable substitute for much of the 20th century. We owe fossil fuels a debt of gratitude, the argument goes, because they supercharged our development. But what if I told…

New federal rules governing the energy efficiency of lighting systems went into full effect Tuesday, effectively ending the sale and manufacture of bulbs that trace their origin to an 1880 Edison patent.

Thomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history

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The Nikola Tesla Technical Museum is fascinating. It’s not as big and interactive as the Michigan Science Centre or not as rich in the display as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Detroit, which I visited a few years ago. Nevertheless, it has on display the power of…

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