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Most people think it was Mr Edison (Thomas Alva) but in reality it was invented in 1806 by a Humphrey Davy in the UK. There was a second significant development in 1841 when a British inventor named Frederick DeMoleyns developed the system of using a vacuum. An American by the name of J. W. Starr also received a patent in 1845 for a bulb using the vacuum principle.

In 1878 Mr Edison announced that he had solved the problems of the incandescent globe but he was somewhat premature. Practical examples were produced by him in 1879 but genuinely workable globes did were not made until 1880. They still only had a life of approx 600 hrs.

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