The electric light wasn’t Thomas Edison’s first invention, nor was he the first to create an alternative to gaslight. Electric lights already existed on a streetlight scale when, on this day ...

This 14-foot replica of an incandescent light bulb stands atop the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower at Menlo Park, New Jersey. The bulb required 6,000 pounds of glass, a steel skeleton weighing three ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879 Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, the first practical electric incandescent lamp. The ...

But first, Edison established the Edison Electric Light Co., assigned 2,500 shares to himself and sold 500 shares to investors including William Vanderbilt. Edison’s team made two major innovations.

Born in 1847, Thomas Edison was an American inventor, who is attributed with creating the first commercially successful incandescent light bulb. He is also known for his success in early motion ...

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 ...

For Thomas Edison, the answer to the question of who invented the light bulb was easy. He held the patents, so he invented it. And strictly speaking, he was correct.

The first electric light bulb, invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879 and patented on January 27, 1880. Welgos/Archive Photos/Getty Images Latimer’s improvements ...

The 14-foot-tall glass replica light bulb on top of the 118-foot-tall tower will no longer burn with an array of incandescent bulbs, Edison's signature invention.