At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

The problem is, the wire — the filament — would burn up quickly ... We were all taught in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much more complicated.

Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind ... of the critical flaws in the earlier light bulb designs and built on them. He ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.