Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio ... The experiment, concluded on October 21, 1879, is heralded as the birth of the electric light. Research continued to find a more resilient and higher-voltage ...

Samuel Insull, who had Chicago's Civic Opera House built in 1929, ran a multibillion-dollar utility empire out of Chicago ...

In a different realm, October 21, 1978, saw the founding of the first national park in the world, Yellowstone National Park, ...

3. Ronald Clark makes note of this in his biography of Edison: "A daughter, named Marion [sic], was born the following year [1872]; four years later, a son christened Thomas and in 1879 a second son, ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric incandescent lightbulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. The protoype lightbulb lasted 13.5 hours before burning out.

Lighting has evolved beyond mere bulbs and tube lights; it now serves as an extension of personal style and space. It plays a ...

Life in the 1800s shared historical footage of a 1932 interview with Francis Jehl who worked as a laboratory assistant to Thomas Edison, expressing his excitement for his role in helping to invent the ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931 ... Sound pioneer Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817-1879) In 2008, audio historians Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni were working together ...

On Oct. 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American to become a saint.

The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1383: A two-year period ...