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” ...

Edison's light bulb (1879), wood engraving, published in 1881 The Filament lamp by Thomas Alva Edison (American inventor, 1847 - 1931) - one of the first electric light bulbs with longer burning time ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the ... Manhattan home to demonstrate the beauty of electric light: 80 twinkling red, white, and blue bulbs strung between the boughs of a large Christmas ...

Thomas Edison now "one upped" all of his competition by inventing the first commercially practical incandescent electric light bulb. And if that wasn't enough to forever seal his unequaled importance ...

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

Edison's light bulb (1879), wood engraving, published in 1881 The Filament lamp by Thomas Alva Edison (American inventor, 1847 - 1931) - one of the first electric light bulbs with longer burning time ...

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 ...

In 1874, they filed a Canadian patent for a similar bulb. Ultimately, they failed to commercialize it, but they sold their patent to Thomas Edison. Edison got serious about electric lighting in 1878.

Southern California Edison said fire agencies are investigating whether electrical equipment was involved in the ignition of the Hurst Fire.

On September 4, 1882, a significant chapter in the history of electricity began when Thomas Edison opened the Pearl Street Station in New York City. This was the first commercial electric power ...