Edison plays an important role in “The Race ... Were they hard? Um, Albert Einstein reportedly failed the quiz when he couldn’t recall the speed of sound. Duh! (761 miles per hour, give ...

In the years following the Wright brothers’ first flight, anyone and everyone with a daring idea produced a flying machine, from Albert Einstein and his ill-fated wing to Thomas Edison and his ...

Thomas Edison famously developed thousands of prototypes of the light bulb before finding the one that worked, and Albert Einstein was unemployed for two years after he graduated college.