The Monthly Episode - July 2022 - The Invention Episode 29

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The lightbulb is one of the most important inventions for the
progress of civilization. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison first
showed the world the electric lamp with a bulb that was on for
48 hours. A few months later Edison presented in his
laboratory a circuit of 40 lightbulbs which he switched on and
off, astonishing all the people who came to see this new
invention.
Light Bulb

Just a month after the presentation, on January 27, 1880,
Edison received the patent for the lightbulb. The controversy
came at the time because there were other earlier inventors
who were shown to have invented lightbulbs before Edison.
Some of these characters were Joseph Swan, Humphry Davy,
and Henry Woodward who could prove that they had made
inventions very similar to Edison's

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