Throughout history, Lewis Latimer’s story has largely been overlooked. But a new, permanent display in Chelsea Public Library ...

Shuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything ...

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...

This lighting choice used to be all the rage, especially for millennials. But now, it looks dated. You can still make this ...

A fusion company has made a few light bulbs glow by converting plasma straight into electricity for the very first time. The ...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but allow me to break this to you: the electric light bulb did not come from the ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

Explore landmark American inventions from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the Wright brothers’ airplane and Jonas Salk’s polio ...

America arrives at its 250th birthday as the most prosperous country in history, yet it faces a question every generation has ...

The Bellevue Hotel is honoring an inventor and one of its earliest contractors through a swanky new restaurant. Mr. Edison, a more current spin on 1940s supper clubs, opened inside the Center City ...

Where there are many roads of possibilities, there are also many intersections, and the directions we choose always make a ...