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Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
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Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Incandescent light bulb
Electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament
An incandescent light bulb, also known as an incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe, is an electric light that produces illumination by Joule heating a filament until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is either evacuated or filled with inert gas to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)