Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Edison’s father, Samuel, was a shingle maker and land speculator, while his mother, Nancy, kept house and taught young Edison at home.

By 1904, at the behest of his father, the Post Office had successfully ordered Thomas Jr. to halt shipments of the product. Although the younger Edison was probably just selling a name and had ...

ELMIRA HEIGHTS, N.Y. (WENY) -- Thomas A. Edison High School is bringing the trend of the Tony Award-winning musical ...

Thomas Edison was a man of firsts ... Film doesn’t get much older than this! A young boy twirls two Indian Clubs in one of Edison’s earliest experimental film fragments.