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Edison's incandescent light globe in a table lamp fitting, 1891.
Edison's incandescent light globe in a table lamp fitting, 1891. The filament here is carbonised bamboo fibres. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb. His first practicable carbon filament lamp used carbonised bamboo fibre. From Electricity and Magnetism by Amedee Guillemin. (London, 1891).
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HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
BULB
CARBON
carbon filament
EDISON
ELECTRIC
electric lighting
Electricity
Engraving
FILAMENT
INCANDESCENT
incandescent electric lamp
Lamp
Light
LIGHT BULB
lighting
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Oxford Science Archive
Print Collector1
TABLE LAMP
Thomas Alva
THOMAS EDISON
Victorian