With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history ...

And those teeth marks belong to Thomas Alva Edison. The inventor of the phonograph, motion pictures and the lightbulb was hard of hearing and found his own way to experience music. Robert Friedman ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in MIlan, Ohio. He attended a formal school for only a few months and was instead homeschooled by his mother, a former school teacher. He read extensively and ...