As twilight descended over North Jersey on Dec. 9, 1914, an explosion tore through Thomas Edison’s laboratory complex. The blast originated in the West Orange facility's film inspection building.

Edison's New Jersey LabNPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jack Stanley, director of the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum in Edison, N.J., the site of the lab where Thomas Edison and his colleagues invented ...

Thomas Edison's record as an American inventor seems hard to beat if Hollywood wants a historical hero — he pioneered practical electric lighting, spawned the sound recording industry and created the ...

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