The complete online text of The Liver Complaint Story by Thomas Edison.

The American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) held hundreds of patents, most for electrical devices and electric light and power. Although the phonograph and incandescent lamp are best known, perhaps his greatest invention was organized research....

Thomas Alva Edison's nickname, "The Wizard of Menlo Park," reflects his amazing inventive talent. Over his lifetime, more than 1,300 patents were issued in his name, far more than have been credited to any other individual in American history. Among the...

During his lifetime, Thomas Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions--a number that no one else has ever approached. Among these were crucial innovations such as the phonograph, the motion picture, and the incandescent light bulb. Yet despite Edison's...

Typically, it weighs about 2 pounds and is roughly the size and shape of a football, partially deflated. It serves as the human body's all-purpose manufacturing plant, making cholesterol, enzymes, complex proteins, and vitamin A. It stores blood, vitamins, minerals, and glycogen, the...

A liver disorder did not prevent Thu Blanke of Plymouth from finishing the Boston Marathon in 1995, and it should not prevent her from receiving a promotion at the Kohler bank where she works, Blanke says in a disability discrimination complaint against her employer....