General Electric is saying goodbye to the light bulb. The conglomerate is shedding a struggling business founded by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. After years of failing to find a buyer, GE ...

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A light bulb is a device that produces light when powered by electricity. It's one of the most important inventions in history. Light bulbs help us see in the dark, work at night, and live more ...

The transaction represented a symbolic closing to G.E.’s opening chapters in the second Industrial Revolution. By Michael Levenson More than 140 years after Thomas Edison and his assistants conducted ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...

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Joe Biden: “A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.” Here’s why: Race was a key issue in Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s first campaign stop in Wisconsin on Sept ...

The creation of the light bulb is commonly viewed as a human achievement—one of those few technologies that actually revolutionized how we live, work, and socialize with our environment. However, the ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...