Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which ...

At his Menlo Park laboratory, in New Jersey, USA, Edison demonstrated the first practical incandescent light bulb. It could ...

In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally famous inventor in his early 30s, set out to create an incandescent light bulb that provided enough light to illuminate a home but would last ...

That's why Edison's electric light bulb was seen as a great advance. But Edison didn't invent it. The modern light bulb has a glass bulb filled with an unreactive gas, such as argon. The filament ...

In this project, I’m building a desk lamp with a sculpted plywood base using the Arbortech Ball Gouge. The shade is a clear plastic globe, typically meant for pendant lighting, paired with a unique ...

This twisted wire illustrates how the filament in the Edison bulb is twisted, but at a micro-scale – when the light's wavelength matches the length of the twist, the lightwaves twirl as they go ...

Though Thomas Edison is credited as the man who invented the lightbulb, several inventors paved the way for him. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Background via Library of Congress In the autumn of 1878, Thomas Alva Edison had a problem. He hadn’t invented the light bulb—yet. Or, to put it more precisely ...

You can't buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. With a few exceptions, the bulbs – patented by Thomas Edison in 1880 and a common fixture in American homes for more than a century – have ...

First came fire; then oil lamps, candles, and gaslight; and, finally, Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb, which operates by heating a filament until it glows. The light produced by an ...