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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.

Swan continued to develop his invention and in 1880 his friend William Armstrong's house at Cragside, near Rothbury in Northumberland, was the first private home to be lit by electric light bulbs.

The light bulb led to new energy breakthroughs ... the light bulb can’t be credited to one inventor. It was a series of small improvements on the ideas of previous inventors that have ...

In 1871, Johnson hired Edison, then a 24-year-old inventor, as a consultant for ... When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value was hard to gauge; widespread electrification ...

The parenthood of any invention of consequence is almost never cut and dried. The natural tendency to want a simple story that’s easy to tell — Edison invented the light bulb, Bell invented ...