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Thomas Edison, the man who is creditted with inventing the lightbulb was born in Ohio, in 1847.
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Thomas became a telegrapher at the age of 19, when he saved a boy who was stuck on a railroad. The boys father then gave him a job and trained him.
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Thomas built his First research lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Here is where he would create some of his most remembered inventions.
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The first invention that got Thomas reconized, and started his career as an inventor.
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In 1877 Edison invented the carbon Microphone, which untill 1980 used a bell reciever.
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Edison, documented his first successful test of his designed lightbulb.
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Edison founded his new company, known as the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City.
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Thomas Edison releases the lightbulb to the public after thousands of attempts, at his research lab in 1879. He said, "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
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The light bulb has been around for 133 years and yet it is continually being improved everyday.
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In 1885 over 300,000 general lighting service lamps were sold.
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May 20,1891 the kinetograph and kinetoscope were both first publicly exhibited. Edison inveted both of these inventios.
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On December 13, 1904 Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman created a new form of a light bulb, the Tungsten bulb. It was suppposed to last longer and give a brighter light.
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In 1914, 88.5 million lamps were used.
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Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931.
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In 1945, annual sales of lamps were 795 million
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The C. Crane Company started experimenting ith the LED bulbs in 1997, and then by 1998 they had come up with a product that they released to the public.
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Today the light bulb has the same uses but it is brighter, lasts longer, and is more eco-friendly to the environment than the previos ones.
