This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States ... His daily trip to Detroit provided him with a layover during which he would visit the city’s libraries to read ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in MIlan ... In 1890, while still on Edison’s payroll, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting. By 1887, Edison’s Menlo Park lab had expanded ...