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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).
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is either evacuated or filled with inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation .
Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. Device for producing light from electricity For other uses, see Electric light (disambiguation). "Electric lamp" and "Light bulb" redirect here. For the furniture, see light fixture. For the album, see Lightbulbs (album). For the film originally titled "Lightbulb", see Ingenious (2009 ...
[7] [8] [9] The hand-blown, carbon-filament common light bulb was invented by Adolphe Chaillet, a French engineer who filed a patent for this socket technology. [10] It was manufactured in Shelby, Ohio, by the Shelby Electric Company in the late 1890s; [7] many just like it still exist and can be found functioning. [11]
[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-lasting than the carbonized bamboo filament used previously. [ 5 ]
On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotel keeper, filed a Canadian patent application on an electric light bulb. [2] [3] It was granted on August 3, 1874, as Canadian patent number 3,738. [4] Woodward was a medical student at the time. Their light bulb comprised a glass tube with a large piece of carbon connected to two ...