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History of the Light Bulb
Who really invented the light bulb? Not who you think.
Close your eyes and picture London in 1878: gas lamps hissing on every corner, oil lamps in shop windows, candle smoke clinging to the air. After dark, the city simply stopped. Then a man in Newcastle holds up a glass tube — and the room fills with cold, white light. That man was not Thomas Edison.
In this episode of Hidden History, Aiden Thomas traces the real race for practical electric light — from Humphry Davy’s arc lamp and Warren de la Rue’s platinum dead end, through Joseph Swan’s February 1879 demonstration, Edison’s patent…
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