Did Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb?

TheyKnowMyIP

Well?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

www.letmegooglethatforyou.com

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Green Mile

No silly,

It was Steve Jobs

starlit

Yes he did!

4leto

No
He invented the research centre and PR.
It would be like saying steve jobs invented the Ipod.

SEPT 23 1989

Why? whose asking?

Mike 1972

Like a lot of inventions the credit for it is widely contested.

The truth is like most things nobody really invented it as such. Several people in various countries happened to be working on the concept of electric lighting around the same times and Edisons version was the one which proved commercially successful.

Many of Edisons later "inventions" were actually the work of people employed by him.

4leto wrote: »

It would be like saying steve jobs invented the Ipod.

Sometime around the middle of the 20th century people stopped "inventing" things* and companies took over.

* With the possible exception of Napster and that clockwork radio dude ?

Seachmall

I invented it.

I invented everything.

ItsAWindUp

Ask Homer Simpson.

AnamGlas

Loads of people have robbed other people's ideas.

Newton was a wanker

ardinn

Jaliyah Sour Shellfish wrote: »

www.letmegooglethatforyou.com

Try here...

Thats the laziest lmgtfy I have ever seen - you didnt even google it for him :rolleyes:

ItsAWindUp

AnamGlas wrote: »

Loads of people have robbed other people's ideas.

Newton was a wanker

Steve Jobs being a topical example.

starlit

No technically bill gates stole his idea kinda.

Naomi00

He stole it...:pac:

pablomakaveli

Edison was a gigantic asshole who took credit for the ideas of others and who hounded his competitors.

Tesla ftw.

orourkeda

Joseph Swan obtained a patent in Brtian 1 year before Edison git his in America

4leto

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Edison was a gigantic asshole who took credit for the ideas of others and who hounded his competitors.

Tesla ftw.

But Telsa was an idiot to spite him inventing the 20th century he died a poor man.

cosanostra

It was the guy that invented the light switch that was the real genius

AnamGlas

4leto wrote: »

But Telsa was an idiot to spite him inventing the 20th century he died a poor man.

Blasphemy, Tesla was practically Superman.

im invisible

ardinn wrote: »

Thats the laziest lmgtfy I have ever seen - you didnt even google it for him :rolleyes:

thats the joke

Curly Judge

orourkeda wrote: »

Joseph Swan obtained a patent in Brtian 1 year before Edison git his in America

Correct!
Swan invented the bulb but Edison made it into a commercial success and invented district lighting using electricity.
I think Edison also invented the first distribution grid but then he didn't have that mad biddy from Tullamore to contend with.

Mike 1972

Curly Judge wrote: »

I think Edison also invented the first distribution grid.

Only worked on (relatively) low voltage DC though which is where Tesla came in.

Tesla was a fine example of the old cliche about there being a fine line between genius and insanity what with his attempts to transmit electric power via radio later evolving into even wierder stuff about death rays.

yermanoffthetv

No the ancient Egyptians did thousands of years ago, no seriously!

picture of the hyroglif


video of the " lightbulb"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTFsPnUddA8

Matthew23

Fluorescent or incandescent?

Riddle101

They say he put put extra legs at the back of his chair to stopping him from falling over, which would have proved very useful for many of us people who like to sit back on our chairs and also invented the Electric Hammer. Of course he never mentioned any of this for some reason so it's all really just a rumor.

godspal

Edison Patented the lightbulb.
As for invention, a handful of people came up with lightbulbs, none as reliable as Edison bulb.
And Edison is a dick, he electrocuted an elephant to death!