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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. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    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; c. 1885 Incandescent gas mantle invented, revolutionises gas lighting.

  4. 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

  5. The last American light bulb: GE stops making its iconic bulb ...

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    Its founder was Thomas Edison, one of America's foremost thinkers, inventors, and tinkerers. His invention of the light bulb in 1876 marked the moment of GE's genesis.

  6. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of Edison patents. Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 [1] ... Edward H. Johnson had light bulbs specially made, hand-wired, ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." [60] Henry Villard, president of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, attended Edison's 1879 demonstration.

  9. 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.