thomas edison light bulb?

Question

who help him make the light bulb?

Answer 1

. On July 24, 1874 a Canadian patent was filed for the Woodward and Evans Light by a Toronto medical electrician named Henry Woodward and a colleague Mathew Evans. They built their lamps with different sizes and shapes of carbon filaments held between electrodes in glass globes filled with nitrogen. Woodward and Evans attempted to commercialize their bulb, but were unsuccessful. Nonetheless, Thomas Edison considered their approach sufficiently promising that he bought the rights to both their Canadian and US patents for $5000USD before embarking on his own light bulb development program. To get enough grant money, Edison told the press that he had already invented the light bulb and that he needed money to produce it.

dressing the question "Who invented the incandescent lamp?" historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel (1987, 115-117) list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Swan and Edison. They conclude that Edison's version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of factors: an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to achieve and a high resistance lamp that made power distribution from a centralized source economically viable. Another historian, Thomas Hughes, has attributed Edison's success to the fact that he invented an entire, integrated system of electric lighting. "The lamp was a small component in his system of electric lighting, and no more critical to its effective functioning than the Edison Jumbo generator, the Edison main and feeder, and the parallel-distribution system. Other inventors with generators and incandescent lamps, and with comparable ingenuity and excellence, have long been forgotten because their creators did not preside over their introduction in a system of lighting." (Hughes 1977, 9)

Answer 2

Thomas Edison had many assistants working for him. He was the idea man and others turned his ideas into practice. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

Answer 3

No one. He is the lone master of such things. There can only be one Thomas Edison.

Answer 4

Thomas Edison stole many inventions from other people and claimed they were his so you never know.

Answer 5

Several people helped. He had several assistents who helped him in the testing of materials, but the original idea of a filament in a vacuum glowing to create light was his. The other people just helped him do the research to find an acceptable material

Answer 6

Some bright spark

Answer 7

And God said... LET THERE BE LIGHT!