(Thomas Edison, as quoted by his private secretary ... He received his first patent (for an electric vote recorder) in 1868, but this invention failed to sell. During the next six years he developed a ...

a brilliant engineer from Connecticut who spends one frustrating year working for Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey, before leaving and going on to invent the electric motor that would be used on ...

Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero ... the famous inventor at a convention in New York. Edison, who was convinced the future lay in electric powered cars, encouraged Ford to "keep at it." ...

So, the following year, Edison moves to New York, takes up a full time telegraph job, and obtains his first patent. But no one buys his vote recording machine ... "The war of the electric currents is ...

Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. Date Proceedings and ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Edison's central station, at No. 257 Pearl street, was yesterday one of the busiest places down town ...

July 16, 2024 • It's the finale of Body Electric season 2! Writer Linda Stone, who coined the term "screen apnea," knows all too well that our technology can really mess with our breathing and ...

For years, you've been able to watch cool-looking electric-plane videos on YouTube, created by some of the 300 companies who are working on them. Today, Beta Technologies, in Burlington ...

For more and more buyers, electric lawn mowers are the easy-to-use, eco-friendly, and efficient choice for yard maintenance and lawn care. Not only can you bid goodbye to pulling a starter cord ...

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...