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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor in the late 19th century who is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history. He developed many technologies that shaped the modern world, but is best known for inventing the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb. After many years of experimentation, in 1879 Edison succeeded in developing an electric light bulb with a carbon filament that could last over 13 hours, making electric lighting a practical alternative to gas lamps. This invention helped drive the spread of electricity and transformed global illumination.

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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor in the late 19th century who is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history. He developed many technologies that shaped the modern world, but is best known for inventing the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb. After many years of experimentation, in 1879 Edison succeeded in developing an electric light bulb with a carbon filament that could last over 13 hours, making electric lighting a practical alternative to gas lamps. This invention helped drive the spread of electricity and transformed global illumination.

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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor in the late 19th century who is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history. He developed many technologies that shaped the modern world, but is best known for inventing the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb. After many years of experimentation, in 1879 Edison succeeded in developing an electric light bulb with a carbon filament that could last over 13 hours, making electric lighting a practical alternative to gas lamps. This invention helped drive the spread of electricity and transformed global illumination.

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    Thomas Edison was an American inventor in the late 19th century who is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history. He developed many technologies that shaped the modern world, but is best known for inventing the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb. After many years of experimentation, in 1879 Edison succeeded in developing an electric light bulb with a carbon filament that could last over 13 hours, making electric lighting a practical alternative to gas lamps. This invention helped drive the spread of electricity and transformed global illumination.

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    Who was Thomas Edison

    • Thomas Edison, in full Thomas Alva Edison, (born February 11,


    1847, Milan, Ohio, U.S.—died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New
    Jersey), American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record
    1,093 patents. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial
    research laboratory.
    • Edison was the quintessential American inventor in the era of Yankee
    ingenuity. He began his career in 1863, in the adolescence of
    the telegraph industry, when virtually the only source of electricity
    was primitive batteries putting out a low-voltage current. Before he
    died, in 1931, he had played a critical role in introducing the modern
    age of electricity.
    Who was Thomas
    Edison?
    Thomas Edison was an American inventor
    who is considered one of America's leading
    businessmen and innovators. Edison rose
    from humble beginnings to work as an
    inventor of major technology, including the
    first commercially viable incandescent light
    bulb. He is credited today for helping to build
    America's economy during the Industrial
    Revolution.
    Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in
    Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven
    children of Samuel and Nancy Edison.
    Edison’s Lightbulb
    Main article: Incandescent light bulb
    In 1878, Edison began working on a system of electrical
    illumination, something he hoped could compete with gas
    and oil-based lighting. He began by tackling the problem of
    creating a long-lasting incandescent lamp, something that
    would be needed for indoor use. Many earlier inventors had
    previously devised incandescent lamps, including Alessandro
    Volta's demonstration of a glowing wire in 1800 and
    inventions by Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans. Others
    who developed early and commercially impractical
    incandescent electric lamps included Humphry Davy, James
    Bowman Lindsay, Moses G. Farmer,William E.
    Sawyer, Joseph Swan, and Heinrich Göbel. Some of these
    early bulbs had such flaws as an extremely short life, high
    expense to produce, and high electric current drawn,
    making them difficult to apply on a large scale
    commercially. Edison realized that in order to keep the
    thickness of the copper wire needed to connect electric
    lights economically manageable he would have to develop a
    lamp that would draw a low amount of current. This meant
    the lamp would have to have a high resistance.
    After many experiments, first with carbon filaments and
    then with platinum and other metals, Edison returned to a
    carbon filament.The first successful test was on October 22,
    1879;it lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this
    design and on November 4, 1879, filed for U.S. patent
    223,898 (granted on January 27, 1880) for an electric lamp
    using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to
    platina contact wires". This was the first commercially
    practical incandescent light.

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