THE present rapid increase in the number of places where the Edison Kinetoscope is exhibited, leads one to glance through the account which was published towards the end of last year of the life and ...

Many of us know that Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor of the incandescent lamp, phonograph and one of the earliest movie cameras. Some of us who studied the Wizard from Menlo Park during our school ...

The late Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for his willingness to brush aside the norms of his genre if it suited his narrative ends, does it again in his final book: a fresh ...

Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer for—as the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: “I am terrified at the thought that so much ...