Dossier
Thomas Edison
Coverage of Thomas Edison in the Nexus archive.
- See inside Thomas Edison's New Jersey lab, where some of America's biggest inventions took shape
Thomas Edison's laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, opened in 1887 and served as his primary workspace for 45 years. There, he and his team developed the first motion-picture camera, alkaline storage batteries, and other influential inventions. The site is now preserved as Thomas Edison National Historical Park.
- Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, new evidence suggests
New evidence suggests Thomas Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, with the possibility of a predecessor to the phonograph emerging a century earlier.