Electricity and the coming of the lightbulb

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison has been credited with many inventions. Edison's inventions are likely in the homes of the majority of the population in most countries and there is not a building around that does not contain a light bulb.

Even though many believe he invented the light bulb, seems, he actually improved upon an older idea. Electricity was a concept that many inventors of the time were experimenting with and at the top of the list of uses for electricity was lght. Many other inventors tinkered with the idea, but until edison, none were able to create a lighting system that was both safe and reliable.

Edison was able to do what others could not which was produce a light source using electrical current, vacuum and filament that actuallystayed lit for some time. After many experiments and over a year of work Edison created the predasessor of the modern light bulb.

Thomas Edison created a light bulb with glass and a carbonized sewig thread that stayed lit for over 13 hours. In his work on the light bulb, Thomas Edison created other inventions that brought about many of the modern electric devices we have today.

In creating a working light bulb, Edison also created...

1. the parallel circuit
2. fuses
   
3. constant voltage
4. Switches and sockets
   

 Edison demonstrated his working Electric light in Menlo Park inthe winter of 1879 and within a few years following that demonstartion, the electrical age had begun and Edison started builing power stations

   The first public demonstration of the Thomas Edison's incandescent lighting system was in December 1879, when the Menlo Park laboratory complex was electrically lighted. Edison spent the next several years creating the electric industry. By the late 1980's Edison General Electric was in full swing. Edison's company was controlled by his investors, J.P. Morgan and others andin 1892Edison merged with a competitor, the Edison name was dropped, and the company became simply General Electric.