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First Public Demonstration of Edison's Light Bulb

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison in 1878, about the time he was working on the incandescent electric lighting system

CREDIT: "Thomas Edison." 1878. Timeline for Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.



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