Jefferson's tale of an encounter with a stranger sparked a saying that became pretty popular in the 19th century.

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

On Feb. 24, 1926, 79-year-old Thomas Alva Edison stepped up to the plate at the Philadelphia Athletics' spring training camp in Fort Myers and, after missing his first swing, rapped a major-league ...

Amid Louisville’s modern cityscape, the Brennan House at 631 South 5th Street offers a historic nineteenth-century retreat. Its most noted owner, Thomas Brennan (1839–1914), was an inventor and ...

Weird NJ investigates one of Thomas Edison's less popular inventions, the concrete house, was supposed to solve the affordable housing problem. Video By: Brian Johnston ...