The light bulb led to new energy breakthroughs — from power plants and electric transmission lines to home appliances and electric motors. Research on the bulbs began more than 150 years ago and ...

Albon Man and William Sawyer had bulbs that didn’t last as long as Edison’s but formed the basis for the United States Electric Lighting Company. That company’s chief engineer was Hiram ...

The electric light bulb inspired the development of the radio valve and the television tube.Can we imagine what the world would have been like in the 20th and 21st centuries without the light bulb?