“IT is estimated,” so Mr. Francis Arthur Jones tells us, “that if everything that has ever been written and published about Edison were collected and re-published in book form, it would make a library ...

Who invented the electricity bulb? The American scientist behind the invention of the electricity bulb is Thomas Edison. The most creative and significant inventor in US history was born on February ...

At first glance, Neil Baldwin seems an odd choice to write a biography of the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. His academic training is in English, not history or technology. His two ...

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as ...

Charles Trueheart is a contributing editor at the American Scholar. Biography as literature lost one of its modern masters when Edmund Morris died in May. His magnum opus on Theodore Roosevelt, begun ...