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

The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.

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.

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about ... most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent ... at least — the bulbs don’t look different on the outside. You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light ...

He gave public demonstrations of this scientific breakthrough in late 1878 and early 1879 ... world's first light bulb factory at Benwell in Newcastle. In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison ...