Viral cat videos history: Thomas Edison's film studio filmed cats over a century ago. His studio produced short films ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - October 17, 1888. Thomas Edison files a patent for the optical phonograph, a device capable of recording and replaying sound for the first time, producing a moving picture.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 31, 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for his new camera: the kinetograf. This innovation was a stepping stone to the creation of cinematic cameras and projectors.

In 1900, Thomas Edison was standing in lower Manhattan waiting to take a ferry back to Jersey City, N.J. The bustling, commercial neighborhood was overrun with horse-drawn carts. Edison, ever the ...

The Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum recently welcomed nearly 90 guests to its Night at the Movies with Mr. Edison event, according to a news release. The event took place Aug. 8 at Milan Town Hall, 24 ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera. A certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes," the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.

Was this home designed and built by inventor Thomas Edison? Did the inventor of the electric light, the motion picture camera and wireless telegraphy also try to re-invent the way houses were built?

Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West ...