Granville T. Woods was a pioneering inventor with nearly 60 patents to his name.Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images Granville T. Woods was one of the most prolific Black inventors in the ...

Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

FALL RIVER — It’s been long overdue — 95 years in fact — but Saturday saw the unveiling of a headstone and memorial for 19th century Black inventor Lewis Howard Latimer at Oak Grove Cemetery. Latimer, ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) — Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, ...

Inventor Granville T. Woods was working as an electrical engineer in Cincinnati in 1884 when he received his first patent, No. 299,894, for a steam-boiler furnace. A few years later, the American ...

Name any common electrical or entertainment device from before 1920 and there's a good chance Thomas A. Edison invented it. But there's also a chance that Edward H. Amet invented it, too. Indeed, Amet ...

MILAN, Ohio – The Ohio hometown of Thomas Edison now has two statues honoring the inventor. A new statue sits in the town square of Milan (MY'-lan), where Edison spent the first seven years of his ...

From 1885 to 1931, Thomas Edison, the man considered one of the modern world's greatest geniuses, tinkered away and entertained at “Seminole Lodge” — his sprawling estate on the banks of the ...

Retired Picatinny Arsenal employee Paul Manz and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Armaments ...