lightbulb

the first lightbulb

1802

Humphrey Davy used electricity ( wires and batteries ) to invent the first electric light.

next generation light bulb

1879

Thomas Edison Long before Thomas Edison patented -- first in 1879 and then a year later in 1880 and began commercialising his incandescent light bulb, British inventors were demonstrating that electric light was possible with the arc lamp that Humphrey Davy invented