The light Bulb

The light bulb is the most important invention in history. This invention helps in so many ways, most importantly; it helps us see when we are not able to, mostly at night. 

The light bulb is an invention that is used all the time. The light bulb has impacted the world in various ways. The only light source that was available consisted of candles, oil lanterns, and gas lamps. It was a very long process to create the light bulb known today. Many people helped with the light bulb that we know today.

Who invented the lightbulb? Some people question it today. Many people say Thomas Edison was the first person who invented the light bulb, is that true?, should Thomas Edison get receive credit for something he didn’t invent?. These are some question some [people ask their self when they know he didn’t invent the lightbulb, Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. Thomas Edison should not receive credit for inventing the lightbulb because he brought the patent he didn’t make the patent. Thomas Edison is customarily credited with the invention because Edison was himself a great promoter of his image, and it was important to claim to be the sole inventor in order to win the crucial patents that would determine which person got to control the market share.

I think that people wanted to believe in the idea of an inventive genius. Edison certainly was, by any stretch, an inventive genius, but people were very drawn to this idea that Edison was a wizard. He was in a very competitive race where he borrowed—some said stole—ideas from other inventors who were also working on an incandescent bulb. What made him ultimately successful was that he was not a lone inventor, a lone genius, but rather the assembler of the first research and development team at Menlo Park, N.J. Someone else who contributed to the light bulb is James Bowman Lindsay.

In 1835 James demonstrated constant electric lighting using a system that is called a prototype light bulb (invsee.asu.edu). In 1850 Edward Shepard, used a charcoal filament to invent an electrical incandescent arc lamp. Another important addition to the light bulb happened that exact year. Joseph Wilson Swan started working with carbonized paper filaments, which later helped the light bulb.