The company’s first step was to work with Thomas Edison to develop a battery-powered lamp to avoid igniting firedamp in mines. MSA went on to produce a variety of safety devices, including breathing ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the world’s ... with “a live outdoor display with dozens of incandescent lamps strung together”—what some call the world’s first string lights.

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 ...

The Cragside type lamp became the first light bulb to be ... In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

Researchers at the University of Michigan developed a new type of incandescent light bulb capable of emitting bright, twisted light—known as chiral light—using technology reminiscent of Thomas ...