Lightbulb Inventor
Who?
Who is responsible for inventing the invention?
A series of inventors helped to improve/create the lightbulb as we know it today.
The first man to ever demonstrate that you can produce light in a controllable way using incandescence (heating a filament using electricity) was Ebenezer Kinnersley. He did this in 1761. Humphry Davy used a gigantic battery to light up a platinum filament in 1802.
In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay showed the public a constant electric light at a meeting in Dundee, Scotland.
This was the first fully functioning electric lightbulb that could be used in a practical way.
He is often credited with inventing the lightbulb. In 1840, Warren de la Rue, a British scientist, put a coiled platinum filament into a vacuum …show more content…
In 1845, John W. Starr obtained a patent for his light bulb involving the use of carbon filaments. He passed away shortly after acquiring the patent, and his invention was never produced commercially.
Little else is known about him. Thomas Edison started to do some serious research into the development of a practical incandescent lamp in 1878.
After large amounts of research, many different filaments, a couple of patents, and some blood, sweat, and tears, he finally settled on a design that was practical enough for commercial use. It lasted more than 1200 hours.
On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent
(No. 34541) for a tungsten filament light that lasted longer and gave brighter light than Edison's carbon …show more content…
He was the son of John Lindsay, a farm worker, and Elizabeth Bowman, his mother. During his adolescent, he was taught to be a handloom weaver. However, while he was looming, he was educating himself. After a while, his parents were able to save up enough money to send him to St. Andrews University, where he enrolled in 1821. He did well as a student and was very smart. Once he completed an additional course of studies in theology, he returned to Dundee in 1829, as Science and Mathematics Lecturer at the Watt
Who is responsible for inventing the invention?
A series of inventors helped to improve/create the lightbulb as we know it today.
The first man to ever demonstrate that you can produce light in a controllable way using incandescence (heating a filament using electricity) was Ebenezer Kinnersley. He did this in 1761. Humphry Davy used a gigantic battery to light up a platinum filament in 1802.
In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay showed the public a constant electric light at a meeting in Dundee, Scotland.
This was the first fully functioning electric lightbulb that could be used in a practical way.
He is often credited with inventing the lightbulb. In 1840, Warren de la Rue, a British scientist, put a coiled platinum filament into a vacuum …show more content…
In 1845, John W. Starr obtained a patent for his light bulb involving the use of carbon filaments. He passed away shortly after acquiring the patent, and his invention was never produced commercially.
Little else is known about him. Thomas Edison started to do some serious research into the development of a practical incandescent lamp in 1878.
After large amounts of research, many different filaments, a couple of patents, and some blood, sweat, and tears, he finally settled on a design that was practical enough for commercial use. It lasted more than 1200 hours.
On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent
(No. 34541) for a tungsten filament light that lasted longer and gave brighter light than Edison's carbon …show more content…
He was the son of John Lindsay, a farm worker, and Elizabeth Bowman, his mother. During his adolescent, he was taught to be a handloom weaver. However, while he was looming, he was educating himself. After a while, his parents were able to save up enough money to send him to St. Andrews University, where he enrolled in 1821. He did well as a student and was very smart. Once he completed an additional course of studies in theology, he returned to Dundee in 1829, as Science and Mathematics Lecturer at the Watt