With an industrial look and durable design, the modern Edison light bulb is a popular choice when it comes to lighting spaces in the home, whether adorning a bathroom vanity, illuminating a kitchen or ...

Early Edison light bulbs were a thing of beauty, but they were also terribly inefficient. Modern LED bulbs are much more efficient, but they aren’t always beautiful. Luke Anderson, a product designer ...

Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by himself. That's according to David Burkus, author of "The Myths of Creativity," who says ...

A new study from the University of Michigan (UMich) researchers sheds light on a light bulb that looks similar to an ordinary filament bulb but produces twisted light, known to physicists as ...

About ten years ago I invested in an LED (light emitting diode) company, and [cutting to the chase] we were too early. The technology and the market did not come together as soon as we had expected, ...

Thomas Edison’s original patents surrounding the light bulb and an archive of 37 original British Patent Letters related to the incandescent lamp have been sold at auction for US$75,000. Though Thomas ...

Timed to mark the 131st anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison—whose birthday is marked by a Google doodle today—General Electric on October 21 unveiled an illumination ...

“If you think you can stop me,” Edison said softly, “go ahead and try. But you’ll have to do it in the dark.” That isn’t a direct quote from Thomas Alva Edison, legendary inventor of the incandescent ...

In other words, a Cincinnati man invented a working electric light bulb 33 years before Thomas Edison. (Edison’s patent was ...