Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Did You Know ... ?

... that Thomas Edison did not actually invent the light bulb?
Well, he didn't! It's news to me, too! I mean, don't you think the teachers should have at least known? All this time I've thought that Edison was the reason I can see in the dark! Pffft! He improved the design of it, not to mention he owned one of the first electric companies (crook!), but did NOT invent the light bulb. I feel robbed! I'm just sayin' ...
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  1. DonMarch 30, 2011 at 5:46 PM

    Thomas Edison, neither invented the light bulb, nor held the first patent to the modern design of the light bulb.

    Apparently, the we gave the esteemed Mr. Edison credit for the invention solely because he owned a power company, later known as General Electric, and a light bulb is just a bulb without a source of electricity to light it. In reality, light bulbs used as electric lights existed 50 years prior to Thomas Edison's 1879 patent date in the U.S.

    Additionally, Joseph Swan, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year prior to Edison's patent date. Swan even publicly unveiled his carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England a minimum of 10 years before Edison shocked the world with the announcement that he invented the first light bulb. Edison's light bulb, in fact, was a carbon copy of Swan's light bulb.

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  2. Lone Star AngelMarch 30, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    I know! That's what I'm saying! lol

    Did you know all of that already? Something tells me that you did... I think that, according to someone close to me who is very smart, he was given the patent to many inventions that were not, in fact his. It's about the same as what companies today do. They have employees working for them and anything they accomplish under said company, the company gains the credit.

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