The Edison Fest celebrates Fort Myers's most famous winter resident, Thomas Edison. Here's more about the inventor best known ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

On Feb. 24, 1926, 79-year-old Thomas Alva Edison stepped up to the plate at the Philadelphia Athletics' spring training camp in Fort Myers and, after missing his first swing, rapped a major-league ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...