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Why did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb?

Nov 02, 2008 by .:BaBoom:. | Posted in History

I requisite a pretty long and detailed answer.

The material answer is that he didn't invent the lightbulb. He had only improved on what someone else did a year before him. And in order to avoid legal battle joined with the bona fide inventor James Swan to market the lightbulb in Europe. To say he

Future Daddy | Nov 02, 2008

'cos he is an inventor. he likes to invent things that can be supportive
CKier | Nov 02, 2008

why did Edison use toungston in vacuum to make a bulb?

Aug 19, 2006 by satish ,the great | Posted in Engineering

Thomas Alwa Edison who invented electrical bulb,utilized the metal toungston to conduct current in vacuum so that it emitted light.why did he use it in vacuum?

Edison's scheme was to make a thin metal wire glow by passing current through it. This worked but the wire , now called a filament, would burgle after a short time and the light would go out.
He discovered that Tungsten or Wolfram, was stronger

firestorm50us | Aug 19, 2006

Why Did Thomas Edison Invent The Light Bulb - News


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The Rotunda - Mar 03, 2010
The light bulb we distinguish today isn't too different from the light bulb invented by Thomas Edison. I The technology behind the light bulb is surprisingly

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Manila Standard Today - Mar 04, 2010
If you're a fan of Disney's “National Cache”, you might remember a line describing how Thomas Edison invented the light bulb: “I didn't fail,