Reenacting Edison's Invention of the Incandescent Light Bulb

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Uploaded by on Sep 23, 2009

Produced in conjunction with Light's Golden Jubilee, a campaign celebrating the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison' invention of the commercially available electric light bulb, which ended with an event held in Dearborn, Michigan on October 21, 1929.

In the evening, after a banquet in Thomas Edisons honor, Edison, Henry Ford, and Herbert Hoover went to Edisons reconstructed Menlo Park Laboratory, New Jersey, laboratory in Greenfield Village. Here they met with Edisons former assistant, Francis Jehl, for a reenactment of Edisons creation of the first successful incandescent light bulb fifty years before. Modern subtitles have been added to compensate for the primitive late 1920s sound recording of the event.

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  • Gotta

    Love how everybody thinks he invented it even thoe he didn't

  • You're my hero Tom.

  • He couldn't have done it without Tesla! He made the coil for sustain lighting, then Edison didn't pay him for his work. Without a contract Edison said to Tesla "Welcome to America"! -Now that's cold..

  • Edison was good with the publicity machine and teachers don't do enough research so for over 100 years school kids have been misinformed who only add to the Edison myth.

  • iv got news the first ever light bulb was invented in dundee scotland not in the usa

  • great

  • who ever did invent light bulb it wasnt edison!

  • thank you Joseph Wilson Swan for the Light Bulb ....

    fuck you Edison you fucking US thief!!!

  • @TheLeporad Sir Joseph Swan of Newcastle announced that he had made a working light bulb on 18 December 1878 and on 18 January 1879 he gave a public demonstration in Sunderland – 10 months before Edison. The Americans say it was just a working model and not a commercial reality … but then they would say that, wouldn’t they?

  • He sure might of just bought the idea, but he made it alot better and improved it so much

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