In 1878, Thomas Edison — already ... The bulbs they sold in the U.K. used Swan’s design but Edison’s filaments. In 1883, Edison lost his light bulb patent when the U.S. Patent Office ruled ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the ... For more than 100 years, the basic design of light bulbs followed Edison’s original 1879 invention, until incandescent bulbs were ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

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Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

Special effects have always been a major part of cinema history, and the very first instance of their use came in 1895, in a ...