- Thomas Edison had a collection of over 5,000 birds
- Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
- Thomas Edison' s first major invention was the quadruplex telegraph
- As a boy, Thomas Edison suffered a permanent hearing loss from head injury
- A person sneezing was the first action caught on video by Thomas Edison
- Thomas Edison once designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder that blew up his factory
Anthea Turner, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Susan Hampshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Edison, Henry Winkler, Cher, Brian Conley, and Leonardo DaVinci are, or were, dyslexic
- 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
- Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory
- Thomas Edison once saved a boy from the path of an oncoming locomotive who was a station official's child. For his bravery, the boy's father taught Edison how to use the telegraph
- During one four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days
- Lazy Susans are named after Thomas Edison's daughter. He invented it to impress a gathering of industrialists and inventors
- When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality
- The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883
- The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory