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.

This 14-foot replica of an incandescent light bulb stands atop the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower at Menlo Park, New Jersey. The bulb required 6,000 pounds of glass, a steel skeleton weighing three ...

The 14-foot-tall glass replica light bulb on top of the 118-foot-tall tower will no longer burn with an array of incandescent bulbs, Edison's signature invention.

EDISON – The new splash park for children at Lake Papaianni near the Municipal Complex off Route 27, which features a 20-foot replica of the Edison light tower spraying water, is officially open ...

Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs that he perfected sold for more than $60,000 at auction on Saturday.The keys sold for $10,625 at ...

Their light bulbs burned out after 150 hours, but Edison improved that to 400 hours by 1884, and 1,200 hours by 1886. Edison and Swan sued each other for violating each other's patents.

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 ...

This 14-foot replica of an incandescent light bulb stands atop the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower at Menlo Park, New Jersey. The bulb required 6,000 pounds of glass, a steel skeleton weighing three ...