1706
it took him 1 year to invent the lightbulb
Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb that was available for commercial use in 1879. The light bulb was first used in Menlo Park.
Yes he did he invnted it in the year 1809 which is a year after he invented the electric arc.
December 31, 1879
Edison didn't invent the light bulb he bought the patent and then work on filaments and encased it in a vacum in glass. Here is a decent history of the light bulb: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllight2.htm
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yes he was afraid of the dark but Edison did not actually invent the light bulb... it was designed somewhere in the UK by Nicola Tesla. Edison refined his design to create 'the modern light bulb' ... :)!
British inventor Sir Joseph Wilson Swan of invented the modern light bulb in 1878, one year before Thomas Alva Edison invented his.
Edison did not invent the lightbulb. He purchased the 1875 patent he purchased from inventors, Henry Woodwardand Matthew Evans and improved on it. His contribution was to develop a carbon filament that burned for forty hours. Edison placed his filament in an oxygenless bulb.
1885
Steven Sanson invented the first camera in 1920
May 8, 1840