Many collections held by the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History document late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...
Invention stories are often about new ideas that arise when inventors recognize solutions to problems they are experiencing. But this invention story...
In the early 1930s, India was in the midst of great change: politically, to end British rule; economically, with industrialization; and educationally...
In the April 1918 edition of The Inland Printer, there was an advertisement for Linotype Instruction by the Empire Mergenthaler Linotype School...
One hundred fifty years ago, our neighbors to the north decided democratically to join together, or “confederate,” to become one nation, the Dominion...
Historian Robert Rosenberg reenacts Edison's first recording of sound during the Lemelson Center's celebration of Edison's 150th birthday.Videography...
This is a guest post by Joan Boudreau, Curator, Graphic Arts Collection, National Museum of American History.2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the...
Until recently, the oldest recorded sounds of known date which anyone could hear had been captured in 1888 on the “perfected” phonograph introduced...
Growing up
Thomas Alva Edison (nicknamed Al) was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Edison was an inquisitive boy who began experimenting at...
