Gadgetopolis » Trivia http://www.gadgetopolis.com Gadget News, Analyzed Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:36:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Old News, Just Learned: Edison didn’t invent the light bulb http://www.gadgetopolis.com/posts/716 http://www.gadgetopolis.com/posts/716#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:49:03 +0000 Robert Giambitaq http://web1.gadgetopolis.com/?p=16 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?]]> http://www.gadgetopolis.com/posts/716/feed 36