It is generally assumed that Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp was the product of inspired tinkering. Actually it was but one element in a much deeper invention: an entire system of electric lighting ...

This made Edison's light bulb not only durable but also economical, and this was a crucial factor for mass usage. Thomas ...

At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the world ... Johnson—an impressively mustachioed inventor and vice president at the Edison Electric Light Company—set up a holiday-themed display ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

Around the same time across the Atlantic, Thomas Edison was busy working ... At the same time he formed the Edison Electric Light Company as a patent-holding company, one of many companies ...

Limelight — also known as the Drummond light — heated a piece ... but they sold their patent to Thomas Edison. Edison got serious about electric lighting in 1878. He experimented with ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...