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Edison National Historic Site
The Laboratory and home of Thomas Edison, stopped in time, continues to teach a new generation.
Edison Birthplace Museum
Information on Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), inventor of the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, and many other devices that make our lives fuller and simpler.
Thomas Edison vs Nikola Tesla - DC vs AC
Inforgraphic on the rivalry between Edison and Tesla and their ideas about direct and alternating current.
Edison and his Inventions
A collection of surviving motion pictures and sound recordings from Edison, with details of his inolvement and a biography of Edison.
Thomas Young
Thomas Young (1773 - 1819) was an English physician and physicist who was the first to realize that the eye focuses by changing the shape of the lens.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (1903 - 1995) first researches involved theoretical and experimental studies in hydrodynamics and, at the Cavendish Laboratory, he worked on indirect methods for producing ...
Light: a learning unit
Lots of information about light, colour and the history of lighting from Edison's light bulb to recent innovations.
Sir John Cockcroft
Sir John Cockcroft was interested in the production of intense magnetic fields and low temperatures. Both he and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951.
The Invention of the Light Bulb: Davy, Swan and Edison
History of the key players in the invention of the light bulb.