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    Warren de La Rue

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    Sir Humphry Davy invented the first electric light in 1802 by connecting wires from a battery to a piece of carbon, causing the carbon to glow. However, this electric arc lamp produced too bright of a light and did not last long. Later inventors such as Warren de la Rue, Joseph Wilson Swan, and Thomas Edison improved on these early designs by experimenting with different materials inside evacuated glass bulbs, helping develop the first practical incandescent light bulbs.

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    Warren de La Rue

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    Sir Humphry Davy invented the first electric light in 1802 by connecting wires from a battery to a piece of carbon, causing the carbon to glow. However, this electric arc lamp produced too bright of a light and did not last long. Later inventors such as Warren de la Rue, Joseph Wilson Swan, and Thomas Edison improved on these early designs by experimenting with different materials inside evacuated glass bulbs, helping develop the first practical incandescent light bulbs.

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    Sir Humphry Davy invented the first electric light in 1802 by connecting wires from a battery to a piece of carbon, causing the carbon to glow. However, this electric arc lamp produced too bright of a light and did not last long. Later inventors such as Warren de la Rue, Joseph Wilson Swan, and Thomas Edison improved on these early designs by experimenting with different materials inside evacuated glass bulbs, helping develop the first practical incandescent light bulbs.

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    Sir Humphry Davy invented the first electric light in 1802 by connecting wires from a battery to a piece of carbon, causing the carbon to glow. However, this electric arc lamp produced too bright of a light and did not last long. Later inventors such as Warren de la Rue, Joseph Wilson Swan, and Thomas Edison improved on these early designs by experimenting with different materials inside evacuated glass bulbs, helping develop the first practical incandescent light bulbs.

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     Sir Humphry Davy

    In 1802, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light. He experimented with electricity
    and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of
    carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. His invention was known as the Electric Arc
    lamp. And while it produced light, it didn’t produce it for long and was much too bright for
    practical use.
     Warren de la Rue
    , in 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue enclosed a coiled platinum filament in
    a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it. The design was based
    on the concept that the high melting point of platinum would allow it to operate at
    high temperatures and that the evacuated chamber would contain fewer gas
    molecules to react with the platinum, improving its longevity. Although an efficient
    design, the cost of the platinum made it impractical for commercial production.

     Joseph Wilson Swan


    In 1850 an English physicist named Joseph Wilson Swan created a “light bulb” by
    enclosing carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. And by 1860
    he had a working prototype, but the lack of a good vacuum and an adequate
    supply of electricity resulted in a bulb whose lifetime was much too short to be
    considered an effective prodcer of light.

     Thomas Alva Edison


    In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical
    incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent
    application for "Improvement In Electric Lights". However, he continued to test
    several types of material for metal filaments to improve upon his original design
    and by Nov 4, 1879, he filed another U.S. patent for an electric lamp using "a
    carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires."

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