☞Let There be Light!
☞Let There be Light! ☞Today in History -- According to traditional American public-school pædagoguery, on today’s date 143 years ago, Wednesday, October 22, 1879, famous American inventor & businessman Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1941) invented the electric incandescent light bulb -- but did he really? ☞On today’s date 142 years ago, laboratory technicians working for Thomas A. Edison (who was not above occasionally taking credit for other people’s inventions) successfully tested an electric incandescent light bulb that used a filament of carbonized thread which lasted for 13½ hours before burning out -- a notable milestone in the long & rather obscure history of the development of practical electric artificial light. “If I didn’t invent the incandescent lamp, I never invented anything.” -- Thomas Edison, 1892 ☞Here is a brief chronological timeline of some of the historical milestones in the development of the electrical incandescent light bulb: ☞1808 -- English ...