Thomas Edison

General information about Thomas Edison on Wikipedia

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Photograph of Edison as a Young Boy

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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847–October 18, 1931) was an American inventor who transformed the world with inventions including the lightbulb and the phonograph. He was considered the face of technology and progress in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Original Edison inventions, located at the birth place of Thomas Edison

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The bedroom where Thomas Edison was born. - Thomas Edison's Birth House

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A sketch book of Thomas Edison's from Thomas Edison's birth site.

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Historians of construction focus on Europe as the place where houses built of concrete were pioneered at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. But over in West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison was dreaming in his laboratory of an entire concrete house made in a single operation, including not just walls and floors, but the foundations, the roof, the staircase, chimneys, mantelpieces, even ceiling decorations.

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Thomas Edison, an American inventor, is known for groundbreaking inventions such as the lightbulb and the phonograph. Learn more about his life and work.

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Thomas Edison in lab, 1906

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Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ...Thomas Edison.

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