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  2. Edison light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Light bulbs with a carbon filament were first demonstrated by Thomas Edison in October 1879. [1] [2] These carbon filament bulbs, the first electric light bulbs, became available commercially that same year. [3] In 1904 a tungsten filament was invented by Austro-Hungarians Alexander Just and Franjo Hanaman, [4] and was more efficient and longer ...

  3. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  4. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 40 hours. 1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb that lasts 1500 hours. 1882 Introduction of large scale direct current based indoor incandescent lighting and lighting utility with Edison's first Pearl Street Station

  5. How the 173-year-old glassmaker behind Edison’s light bulb ...

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    A photo of the original purchase order from Thomas Edison to Corning for the glass encasement for Edison’s lightbulb in 1880. CEO Wendell Weeks keeps the purchase order framed in his office as a ...

  6. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Edison later saw one of these bulbs in a shop in Boston, and asked Farmer for advice on the electric light business. Alexander Lodygin on 1951 Soviet postal stamp. In 1872, Russian Alexander Lodygin invented an incandescent light bulb and obtained a Russian patent in 1874.

  7. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    English engineer Joseph Swan invented the Incandescent light bulb. 1879: American physicist Edwin Herbert Hall discovered the Hall Effect. 1879: Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long-lasting filament for the incandescent lamp. 1880: French physicists Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie discovered Piezoelectricity. 1882

  8. 10 old-school Christmas traditions that are no longer practiced

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    The invention of light bulbs ushered in a new, safer era in Christmas tree lighting. In 1882, a couple of years after Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb, Edward Johnson, a friend of Edison's ...

  9. Edison and Swan Electric Light Company - Wikipedia

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    The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was a manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and other electrical goods. It was formed in 1883 with the name Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company with the merger of the Swan United Electric Company and the Edison Electric Light Company. [1] [2]