At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...
Life in the 1800s shared historical footage of a 1932 interview with Francis Jehl who worked as a laboratory assistant to Thomas Edison, expressing his excitement for his role in helping to invent the ...
In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.