Born in Sunderland, he studied chemistry and moved to Tyneside where, after many years of persistent effort, he created the first successful 'incandescent filament electric lamp' - the light bulb.

On a Thursday night 144 years ago, Salt Lakers crowded onto Main Street to see "a new light, such a feeds the torches of the fixed stars and marks their courses through the fathomless ocean whose ...

Born in Sunderland, he studied chemistry and moved to Tyneside where, after many years of persistent effort, he created the first successful 'incandescent filament electric lamp' - the light bulb.