Topic: Thomas Edison

Table Lamps and Their History

A short look at table lamps in their history will reveal to most people -- who probably were not even aware of the fact -- that lamps as we know them first came into existence nearly 72, 000 years back. Humans back then probably took shells or hollowed rocks and placed some ...
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Fairy Lights ? How to Create Dazzling Effects

Edward Johnson, one of Thomas Edison?s assistants, invented electric fairy lights in 1882, dressing a tree with 80 small bulbs. By 1902, his invention was being mass produced. While most western households have a special box in the loft marked ?Christmas tree lights? you might be surprised to find ...
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Fort Myers - A Historic Florida Gulf Coast Community You'll Love to Visit

I have a dear friend who I?ve been friends with since we met in Atlanta, Georgia in the sixth grade and we graduated high school in 1985, so we've been friends a while. Anyway, as life goes, I moved to Florida and she moved elsewhere but we remained ...
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Thomas Edison's NJ lab to reopen after overhaul

NJ lab where Thomas Edison perfected phonograph, movie camera to reopen after 6-year overhaulThe New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison perfected some of his most famous inventions is reopening with a wealth of restored material. The Thomas Edison National Historical Park has undergone a six-year, $13 million overhaul. Edison built ...
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