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    Light Bulb: Thomas Edison

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    Thomas Edison developed the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879. While others had experimented with electric lights, Edison's version used a carbon filament that could last over 1200 hours, making power distribution economically viable. Though not the sole inventor of the light bulb, Edison's version was able to outstrip earlier attempts due to its longer-lasting filament, higher vacuum, and resistance suitable for centralized power sources. The light bulb profoundly changed human life by illuminating the night and enabling modern activities.

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    Thomas Edison developed the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879. While others had experimented with electric lights, Edison's version used a carbon filament that could last over 1200 hours, making power distribution economically viable. Though not the sole inventor of the light bulb, Edison's version was able to outstrip earlier attempts due to its longer-lasting filament, higher vacuum, and resistance suitable for centralized power sources. The light bulb profoundly changed human life by illuminating the night and enabling modern activities.

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    Thomas Edison developed the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879. While others had experimented with electric lights, Edison's version used a carbon filament that could last over 1200 hours, making power distribution economically viable. Though not the sole inventor of the light bulb, Edison's version was able to outstrip earlier attempts due to its longer-lasting filament, higher vacuum, and resistance suitable for centralized power sources. The light bulb profoundly changed human life by illuminating the night and enabling modern activities.

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    Light Bulb

    Thomas Edison

    Throughout the nineteenth century, inventors produced simple electric lights. For example,
    Joseph Swan produced a simple electric light, but, he struggled to maintain a power source and the
    filament soon burned out when the vacuum was exhausted. It was Thomas Edison who made the light
    bulb into a practical low current version. He used a filament based on a burned sewing thread.
    In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent
    lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement in Electric
    Lights”. However, he continued to test several types of material for metal filaments to improve upon his
    original design and by Nov 4, 1879, he filed another U.S. patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon
    filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires.”
    The electric light, is one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not
    “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have
    created the first commercially practical incandescent light. He was neither the first nor the only person
    trying to invent an incandescent light bulb. In fact, some historians claim there were over 20 inventors of
    incandescent lamps prioXr to Edison’s version. However, Edison is often credited with the invention
    because his version was able to outstrip the earlier versions because of a combination of three factors: an
    effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to achieve and a high resistance
    that made power distribution from a centralized source economically viable.
    Thomas Alba Edison’s mastermind guided to this amazing invention that changed the world.
    With the electrification of the modern world, the light bulb invented in the year 1879 profoundly changed
    human life by illuminating the night. The first electric bulb made it possible for all human lives hospitable
    to a wide extent of modern day activities. However, it is assumed that the idea behind the light bulb came
    from Humphrey Davy in the 1800, when he invented an electric battery and connected a carbon with
    wires which glowed and produced electric arc. Edison improvised the concept of Joseph Wilson Swan
    and Charles Francis Brush experimenting with different filaments that could last longer. Edison started
    with a 40-hour life light bulb and finally made a bulb that lasted for 1500 hours. The incandescent bulb is
    revolutionizing human lives since then.
    Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including using
    "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," it was not until several months
    after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could
    last over 1200 hours. This discovery marked the beginning of commercially manufactured light bulbs and
    in 1880, Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Electric Light Company begin marketing its new product.

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