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Old News, Just Learned: Edison didn’t invent the light bulb


By Robert Giambitaq

By Robert Giambitaq
The Swan Lightbulb
Maybe I'm a little behind the times. But I was just watching an episode of the fantastic BBC/Discovery documentary appropriately named "Light Fantastic" and it made the claim that the incandescent light bulb was invented by a British manufacturing chemist named Joseph Swan in the 1870s. Wait?! What?! Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb?

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4 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Giambitaq - October 13, 2009 at 15:49

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