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Sir Humphrey Davey invented the first carbon electric lamp in 1801. But Thomas Edison was granted a patent to the lamps most commonly used to today (Incandescent Lamps) in 1879. But others argue Joseph Swann created the same thing around the same time but didn't get a patent for it.

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