Recently, on one of those “today in history” moments that are the total of television’s nod to educational content, I discovered that it was the 125th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the ...

They're all in their places with bright shiny faces. School is back in session for another year, but for this generation of students, it's one more year removed from what once was an educational ...

In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting ...

Before the laser printer, before the Xerox, and before the carbon copy, there was the mimeograph machine. In 1876, Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) filed a United States patent for autographic printing by ...