Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors in history. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847 and died in 1931. During his life he patented 1,093 inventions. Many of these inventions are in use today and changed the world forever. Some of his inventions in...

Mankind has a long history in dividing our past into era's or 'ages'. The Tool, Bronze, Dark Ages and so on. With the amazing development of technology in the last two centuries, eras have been named by their defining technology, the Machine, Automation, Atomic, Space Ages, and final...

During the nineteenth century, many advances in technology took place. Most of these came as a result of people beginning to understand electricity. (Even though electricity had been studied and recorded for many centuries, it was only as of the nineteenth century that it had been experimented wit...

Thomas Edison American inventor born in 1847, one of the greatest inventors of all time. Edison began to work at an early age and continued to work right up until his death. Thought out his long career he had more than 1000 patents. Some of his bigger inventions were the electric light, the moti...