Researchers in James Tour’s lab at Rice University showed that Thomas Edison’s original carbon-filament light bulbs could ...
Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...
Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of light bulbs. RELATED: Livermore’s 123-year-old Centennial Lightbulb glows up We ...
Everyone credits Edison for the light bulb—but the real story starts much earlier. Discover the inventors who came before him ...
Edison carbon lamp, ca.1884. Brass medium-screw base with plaster-dome insulator. Single-arch bamboo filament with copper-plated connectors, 3-piece leads, cork insulator. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped ...