This post originally appeared in Business Insider. Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by himself. That’s according to ...

By Alison Griswold Nov 6, 2013, 9:53 AM PT Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by ...

EDISON – When the Edison Memorial Tower and Museum is rededicated on Oct. 24, nearby will be a 6-foot-tall replica of a modern-day light bulb, an invention for which Thomas Alva Edison is credited.

Thomas Edison didn’t invent the light bulb—but here’s what he did do With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world.

In 1883, Edison lost his light bulb patent when the U.S. Patent Office ruled his work had been based on that of another inventor, William Sawyer. After a number of court hearings, that ruling ...

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Background via Library of Congress In the autumn of 1878, Thomas Alva Edison had a problem. He hadn’t invented the light bulb —yet.

Edison Light Bulb, 1879 Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, the first practical electric incandescent lamp. The ...

Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which ...