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Invention of The light Bulb 2 - Timeline Help
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Invention of The light Bulb 2
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- 1880 | Herman Sprengel created the mercury vacuum pump, making it possible to develop a practical light bulb run by electricity. This pump creates a vacuum inside the bulb.
Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward patent their version of a light bulb.
Edward Weston opens Weston Dynamo Machine Company in Newark, New Jersey.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, a physicist from England, invented a practical light bulb that lasted 13.5 hours using a carbon fiber filament made of cotton. He gets a UK patent for his improved incandescent lamp inside a vacuum tube.
Hiram Maxim founds the United States Electric Lighting Company.
Thomas Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Company.
Joseph Wilson Swan begins installing electric light bulbs in landmarks and homes around England.
Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that was able to burn for forty hours. He placed this filament in a bulb without oxygen built from a design based on the 1975 patent filed by Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward. He purchased the patent before he worked on his modifications. He blew his own bulbs in an attempt to make a bulb suitable for home use.
Edison kept working on his light bulb until it could shine for over 1200 hours. He used a filament derived from bamboo.
Weston Dynamo Company is renamed Weston Electric Lighting Company.
Edwin Houston and Elihu Thomson open the American Electric Company.
Charles Brush opens the Brush Electric Company.
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Bibliography of the Invention of the light Bulb 2
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Pollard, M (1995). The Light Bulb and How It Changed the World.
Law, E (1988). And Then There Was Light. History of the Aiken Electric Cooperative Inc., 1938 - 1988.
Jonnes, J (2004). Empires of Light. Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse; Race to Electrify the World.
Hecht, J (2004). City of Light. The Story of Fiber Optics.
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