Swan continued to develop his invention and in 1880 his friend William Armstrong's house at Cragside, near Rothbury in Northumberland, was the first private home to be lit by electric light bulbs.

The light bulb led to new energy breakthroughs ... is invented While working for General Electric, Nick Holonyak Jr., invented the first visible-spectrum LED in the form of red diodes.

Edison's invention made electricity widely available in homes, changing how people slept and worked. Electric bulbs enable people to work and be productive even after the sun sets, a concept that ...

You might have learned in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much ... of calcium oxide using a gas torch — not electric, but technically incandescence.

In 1871, Johnson hired Edison, then a 24-year-old inventor ... put electric lights on the White House tree, and by 1914, a 16-foot string cost just $1.75. By the 1930s, colored bulbs and cones ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...