Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It ...

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.

Electricity is all around us ... While Thomas Edison may be known as the man who invented the light bulb, it can be argued that Nikola Tesla is the one who turned it on. Before the booming ...

Though the first electric arc lamp was invented by Sir Humphry Davy in the ... arranged in a front-to-back layout inside, with a light bulb and brass reflector sitting at the end of the design.