In 1879, Thomas ... electric light wouldn’t be tied together for three more years. On December 22, 1882, Edward H. Johnson—an impressively mustachioed inventor and vice president at the Edison ...

One ad in the Los Angeles Herald promised ... and experimented for years in perfecting the Magno-Electric Vitalizer.”) In reality, Thomas Edison Jr. had very little in common with his famous ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.