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 ...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened: On Oct. 15, 1878, Thomas Edison founded Edison Electric Light Co. — a firm that would ...

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Before electric headlights came along, early cars used an ingenious lighting method borrowed from horse-drawn carriages.

On Sept. 30, 1882, the first centrally located electric lighting plant using the Edison system in the West and the first hydroelectric central station in the United States began operation on Fox River ...

These days, we have LED light bulbs that will last a decade. But it wasn’t so long ago that incandescent lamps were all we had, and they burned out after several months. Thomas Edison’s early light ...