General Electric is saying goodbye to the light bulb. The conglomerate is shedding a struggling business founded by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. The deal marks the latest step in ...

In 1879, after years of obsessively improving on the concept of light bulbs, he demonstrated a bulb that could last a record-breaking 14.5 hours. “My light is at last a perfect one,” Edison ...

A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison." — in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Fact: Edison invented the light bulb, Latimer made it practical ...

Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, ... 1879. Not long afterward, Edison and his team switched from cardboard to bamboo filament.

When Thomas Edison was working on the incandescent lamp in 1879, he purportedly said, “We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this ...

So long, in fact, that many Americans might not even realize that the old-fashioned filament bulbs — those invented by Thomas Edison in 1879 — aren't already banned.

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, he had invented a light bulb, but he couldn’t keep it lit for ...

The parade’s namesake, inventor Thomas Edison, had more than 1,000 U.S. patents for his inventions, including the first commercial light bulb, a universal stock ticker, the phonograph and the ...

Over several days in late December 1879, hundreds of people came from near and far to see the tiny globes bursting with light in Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park buildings and in the streetlamps outside.

Though Thomas Edison is credited as the man who invented ... In Nov. 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a ... Watch a video about how light bulbs work from minutephysics on ...

Shapiro has more than 500 bulbs in his collection, all from the earliest years of production (1879-1894), and won't hesitate to spend five figures on one, if he must.