It was dark and they needed a supply of light to read books and do other things
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
I am sorry to disillusion you but Thomas Edison DID NOT invent the light bulb. The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy.
December 24,1877 he invented the light bulb.
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. He therefore just improved on other peoples work.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thomas Edison invented the light bulb because people needed it to see in the dark and so he could become a successful man.
The electric light bulb was invented in 1879.
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The incandescent electric light bulb was invented by Thomas A. Edison.
Yes. The electric light bulb was invented in 1879 and basketball was invented in 1891.
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In 1878, he struggled to invented the electric light bulb
The first glass light bulb was invented in 1841 by Frederick DeMoleyns. However the first electric lamp was invented in 1806.
Thomas Edison
A hundred years ago.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and the first practical incandescent electric light bulbs.
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