Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been ... In England, inventor Joseph Swan developed a similar bulb ...

Edison applied for a patent for the device in December ... selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” produced by ...

they filed a Canadian patent for a similar bulb. Ultimately, they failed to commercialize it, but they sold their patent to Thomas Edison. Edison got serious about electric lighting in 1878.

It was sold by the Thomas A. Edison Jr. Chemical Company, an outfit ostensibly owned by the son of famed inventor Thomas ...