Thomas Edison Archives - Boing Boing Staging

wheels Donald Trump thinks the wheel was invented by Americans Thom Dunn

Thomas Edison That time a rando told Thomas Edison that he should invent a speech-to-text engine Cory Doctorow
Frankenstein The first film adaptation of Frankenstein was shot in Thomas Edison's studio Jamie Frevele
Science Turning on a 100-year-old light bulb Maggie Koerth
Audio Ghost boxes, psycho-phones, and other devices for listening to spirits David Pescovitz
Science Why are moths drawn to lamps? David Pescovitz
books Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah Wink
podcast Flash Forward Reveals Hidden References Rose Eveleth
obama President Obama's final State of the Union address Xeni Jardin
books The Paradox: a secret history of magical London worthy of Tim Powers Cory Doctorow
Business Business lessons from "pirates, hackers, gangsters and other informal entrepreneurs" Cory Doctorow
The magician who astounded the world by conjuring spirits and talking with mummies Mark Frauenfelder
Take the intelligence test that Thomas Edison gave to job seekers Mark Frauenfelder
Homer's Last Theorem Simon Singh
art What Fools These Mortals Be! A collection of 19th century humor cartoons Bill Watterson
Low-energy LED invention wins Nobel prize for Physics Xeni Jardin
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: Tapeworm Fermi's Paradox, Edison's EULA; Freelancers ordered to return bankrupt publisher's checks Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Poignant late-19th-C ad for a newfangled talking-machine Cory Doctorow
Science 7 inventions that failed miserably Maggie Koerth
Vintage Weird Wegee photo of a man about to be executed wearing a hood with a Westinghouse logo on it Mark Frauenfelder