When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a ...

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This reminds us of how, in the 1880s, Edison observed current flowing in one direction through a test light bulb that ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...

The Edison Festival of Light began in February 1938 as a way to honor Fort Myers' most famous winter resident, Thomas Edison. Eighty eight years later, the festival is back and still going strong.

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Mimicking Edison’s experimental setup, Eddy attached the light bulb to a 110-volt direct current electricity source. He allowed it to flow for 20 seconds, as bouts of heating longer than that can form ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...