Tag Archives: Incandescent light bulb

June 17, 2011

There’s A Big Birthday Party Planned!

I just had to research the light bulb that has been burning in Livermore California for 110 years when one of my avid readers told me about it in a comment on the “Who Invented the Lightbulb?…Wrong” post a few days ago.  In … Continue reading →

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June 14, 2011

Who Invented The Light Bulb?…Wrong!

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.  Right?…Wrong!  We’ve all been taught that, but the truth is the actual inventor of the incandescent bulb was an Englishman.  J.W. Starr developed the light bulb using a carbon filament inside a vacuüm bulb in 1845.  After … Continue reading →

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