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Humphry Davy
In 1802 the first electric light was invented by Humphry Davy. He started inventing a battery, When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. -
Warren de la Rue
In 1840 Warren de la Rue created a lightbulb, he enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it, the high melting point of the platinum made it glow very hot and bight. -
Joseph Wilson Swan
In 1850 a physicist named Joseph Wilson Swan made a lightbulb by enclosing carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. And by 1860 he had a working prototype. -
Thomas Edison
In 1878 Thomas Edison and his team made a long lasting (1200 hours) lightbulb -
Peter Cooper Hewitt
In 1903 the first mercury lamp was invented by Peter copper Hewitt
