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The first lighting system
Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. Davy connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip betwween the other ends of the wires. The charged carbon glowed making the first arc lamp. -
Platnum Coil design
Warren De la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in an evacuated tube and passed an electric current through it. His lamp design was worked but the cost of the precious metal platinum made this an impossible invention for wide-spread use. -
Thomas Edison was born
The youngest of 7 children from Sam and Nancy Edison. As he grew up he lost all of his hearing from his left ear and his hearing got worse over the years. -
First True working light bulb
Henricg Globel, a German watchmaker, invented the first true lightbulb. He used a carbonized bamboo filament placed inside a glass bulb. -
Long lasting light bulb
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours). Swan used a carbon fiber filament derived from cotton. -
The search is over
After a night of trials and errors Edison used one of his wifes sewing threads that he roled in carbon dust and he bent the thread into a arc and put it in the bulb expecting failure and the buld lite up the room for 13 hours.