Annotated designs drawn by inventor Thomas Edison to improve his first ever electric lightbulb have emerged for sale for £90,000. The scientist, who is often credited with perfecting the carbon ...

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Make your own bookends lamp, featuring one of the great interesting Edison light bulb designs that are now available.

These Edison Lamps aren’t using any modern LED technology, but they sure capture the look of the era from which the lightbulb came quite nicely—something refreshingly simple Starting at $205, the ...

Benjamin Franklin may be the most famous American inventor, owing to his dual roles as a world famous inventor and also a Founding Father and Statesman, but the most prolific and influential American ...

Chandeliers can be pretty classy if they’re done right, but they can also take up a lot of space and gather a lot of dust. What someone should do is make a tiny chandelier, and encase it in a light ...

Phonographs were invented in 1877. The early versions had one needle for recording and another needle for playing. The music was recorded on tinfoil-coated cylinders using a needle to make tiny lines ...

A COMMUNICATION in yesterday's Daily News, from a New York correspondent of that paper, gives a glowing, and to all appearance justifiably so, account of Mr. Edison's success in attaining a form of ...

Most Loved: Finnish designer Harri Koskinen explains how he came up with the idea of encasing a lightbulb in a glass box to create his iconic Block Lamp in the next movie in our exclusive video series ...

New York 2013: designers Young & Battaglia debuted a glass pendant lamp with a tiny chandelier inside for design brand Mineheart at ICCF last month. A miniature brass chandelier sits within a ...

No base. Single-arch bamboo filament with three-piece leads, copper-plated connectors. Platinum leaf mounted on a two-piece lead and set in press between filament legs. All leads individually sheathed ...