Who was the creator of the light bulb?

Answer 1

As with many important developments, many people contributed to developing the fluorescent lamp.

The phenomenon of fluorescence was first explained in the mid-19th century by George Stokes at Cambridge University. Other scientists including Heinrich Geissler (Germany) and William Crookes (UK) experimented with generating light by passing an electric current through gas-filled tubes. These devices produced various colors rather than white light, though, and found commercial use only for advertising and entertainment.

Development of a gas-filled bulb that produced white light proved elusive. Even great inventors like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were unsuccessful. A major reason for the lack of progress was that efforts concentrated on finding a gas that would itself glow white. It remained for physicist Arthur Compton to make the leap of producing light indirectly via a coating on the tube's glass rather than relying on the gas itself.

Commercial development started in 1934 when Compton reported to the lamp department of the American company General Electric on successful experiments with fluorescent lighting at General Electric Co., Ltd. in Great Britain (a company unrelated to its American namesake). Compton's work was refined by other GE scientists and engineers; the first commercial fluorescent lamps went on sale four years later, in 1938.

The large number of people who were directly or indirectly involved in developing fluorescent lighting resulted in protracted battles - both in and out of court - over who should receive credit, and to what extent each contributed. Despite partisans who would assign primacy to Tesla and/or Edison, there's no historical evidence that either was successful. Interestingly, one person who does receive mention, although not formal credit, is a Filipino electrician named Agapito Flores. He independently came up with the same idea as the much more renowned Compton, but dates on his work and Compton's show that Flores reached his conclusions later.

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Answer 2

"The one who created the florescent light bulb is Thomas Edison."

That is wrong. Edison was the first person to invent a practical incandescent light bulb that lasted more than a few weeks.

Answer 3

Lightolier, Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, and Globe Lighting, all of the New York City area, were the original manufacturers of the fluorescent light fixture in the world.

1939 was when the fluorescent light was first introduced for commerical use to the public at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

While these fluorescent light bulb technologies were invented in the late 1800s by a German scientist and a United States scientist, they developed for many years by mostly researchers and inventors at the General Electric Corporation who eventually got the patent rights to the fluorescent bulb we all know today.

However, no wide-scale manufacturing of the fluorescent fixture, the device that makes it possible to power the light bulb, had taken place until about 1938 when three (3) corporations emanated from the New York City region and became the dominate manufacturers of the fixture, within the United States, in years to come. Among the three (3) were Lightolier, the largest, purchased by Philips Electronics Group Brand recently, with approximately $500 million dollars in annual sales, followed by Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, and Globe Lighting, of the New York City area. One is still in business today.

Although General Electric, Sylvania, and Westinghouse were clear leaders in bulb technology, keeping with verity of the times, the co-founder of Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, Mr. Louis Levy, of the Bronx, NY, was one of the pioneers in the manufacturing processes of the fixture. During the 1950s, fluorescent light bulbs and fixtures outsold traditional lighting more than any other time in our history. And since that time, countless manufactuerers around the globe make various fixtures styles although General Electric, Sylvania and other major corporations remain the leaders in bulb sales around the world.

No other wide-scale major developments have taken place since 1939 in lighting technology until recently, in the 1990s, when the LED, a newer technology, became widely available.

Answer 4

Thomas Edison

Answer 5

Thomas Edison and Joseph Swann.