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Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the incandescent light bulb in 1879. 1 2 He developed the light bulb with the help of financial backers such as J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt family. 3 Edison's invention was the result of years of research and development, building on the work of inventors such as Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, and Joseph Swan. 2 Edison's light bulb was a major breakthrough in electric lighting technology, and it was the first commercially successful bulb. 2

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Summary Thomas Edison is usually credited as the inventor of the lightbulb, but other inventors such as Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, and Joseph Swan played a critical role in the development of this revolutionary technology. Davy's electric arc lamp was an improvement on Volta's stand-alone piles, but it still wasn't a very practical source of lighting. In 1850, English chemist Joseph Swan developed a lightbulb that used carbonized paper filaments in place of those made of platinum, but Edison patented the first commercially successful bulb in 1879.
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Edison Light Bulb, 1879. Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, the first practical electric incandescent lamp. The light…
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Edison light bulbs, also known as filament light bulbs and retroactively referred to as antique light bulbs or vintage light bulbs, are either carbon- or early tungsten -filament incandescent light…
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The Edison lamp from our Attic is dated January 27, 1880. It is a product of the continued improvements Edison made to the 1879 bulb. Even though it is over…
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Edison invented a highly sensitive device, that he named the tasimeter, which measured infrared radiation. His impetus for its creation was the desire to measure the heat from the solar…
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In 1878, Edison focused on inventing a safe, inexpensive electric light to replace the gaslight—a challenge that scientists had been grappling with for the last 50 years. With the help…
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