in 1875
in 1880
He invented the electric light in 1880
Edison invented the minor's safety lamp in the year 1914.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.
in 1878
1856
1887
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.
he didn't
In 1891, of course!
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb overnight; it took him years of experimentation and testing. He started working on the electric light in the early 1870s and finally patented the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879.
Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879.