and factories to produce Edison’s inventions. Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then ...

Working in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...