The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.

At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. In 1928 the Menlo Park buildings were moved from their ...

When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value was hard to gauge; widespread electrification was still decades away. Still, Johnson, Edison and others invested $35,000 to form the ...

when Swan established the world's first light bulb factory at Benwell in Newcastle. In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

This is the Edison clock, designed by [David Krawczyk ... You can see the series of holes on the front of the base. These have a small light bulb socked in each, and correspond to hours and ...

Filament bulbs and other commonly used light ... but like the bulb Edison developed,” said Jun Lu, first author of the study ...