Joseph Mikulec walked the globe collecting signatures from kings and paupers. Now his century-old autograph book is going ...

Thomas Mulligan shares how Thomas Edison’s strange sleep trick inspired over 1,000 inventions.

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The common belief that Thomas Edison singlehandedly invented electric lighting in 1879 isn’t true. The first electric light was the arc light, invented by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807.

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

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Gen Z is making up its own etiquette rules when it comes to answering the phone. Some of them aren't saying "hello." They ...

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Benjamin Franklin discovered how to use electricity. Thomas Edison used that to create the light bulb. But what about the first home to fully utilize these discoveries?

A historic space in downtown Wilmington could be getting new life after being closed for more than five years.