A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, ...

In February 1881, Thomas Edison established the headquarters of the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City. Edison's goal of electrifying Lower Manhattan had stalled for two years while Edison ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A box containing 23 lightbulbs used at the 1890 court case where Thomas Edison defended his patent for the invention is to be auctioned later this month and is expected to fetch up ...

William J. Hammer Collection / Series 2: Edisonia / 2.3: Edison Electric Light Company: Lamps, Distribution Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees ...

In his illuminating newest, Freeberg, a professor of humanities at the University of Tennessee, examines the social, technological, and political context surrounding the development of the electric ...