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  2. Edison light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Original carbon-filament bulb from Thomas Edison's shop in Menlo Park. 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]

  3. Edisonian approach - Wikipedia

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    Edison's method was to invent systems rather than components of systems. Edison did not just invent a light bulb, he invented an economically viable system of lighting including its generators, cables, metering and so on. Edison invented by repeatedly trying devices in more complex environments to progressively approximate their final use ...

  4. 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).

  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. 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

  7. Heinrich Göbel - Wikipedia

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    The court confirmed the patents of Thomas Edison related to the incandescent light bulb. Based on this decision, Edison Electric brought suits to obtain preliminary injunctions to close the productions of incandescent light bulbs of the Beacon Vacuum Pump and Electrical Company, Boston; Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company, St. Louis; and ...

  8. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    His light bulbs are on display in the museum of the Château de Blois. [a] In 1859, Moses G. Farmer built an electric incandescent light bulb using a platinum filament. [24] 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

  9. Which Lightbulbs Save the Most Money? -- Savings Experiment - AOL

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    In today's Savings Experiment, With high energy costs driving up electricity bills and an ever-widening array of lighting choices available at the local hardware store, it can be hard to pick the ...