THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, and died at West Orange, New Jersey, on October 18, 1931, at the age of eighty-four. Many years before Edison ...

DRIVEN by his deafness to read his way through the Detroit Public Library, Edison wrote long afterwards that he had found that almost any book would book entertainment or instruction. This ...

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph ...