Who should get credit for invention of the light bulb?

History had hidden a lot of important truth from us. One of the truth we will be discussing is who truly invented the light bulb and who should be credited for perfecting it. Almost everywhere you go, you'll see some kind of light or light bulb, bathroom, street, and classroom, but many people still don't know the history of the invention of the light bulb. While majority of people might say the one and famous Thomas Edison invented the light, some might disagree and say this and that person invented, but later was perfected by Thomas Edison. If people really look deep in the history of the invention of the light bulb and do their research on it, they'll find some surprising and shocking truth or facts. Personally I did not know who invented light bulb until probably my junior or senior year of High School when the teacher showed us a video about it, which was really surprising to me.


For everyone that still thinks Thomas Edison actually came up with the idea of light bulb should read a book about it or do research because as surprising as it might be, he did not actually invented the light bulb. He could be credited for perfecting it, making it much more easier for people to be able to see in the dark. The history of this invention goes back to a long time ago, way before Thomas Edison's time. Many inventors from across the world had drafted various patents on it, in 1800 an Italian inventor Alessandro  Volta came up with the first ever practical method of generating electricity, the voltaic pile. It was not long after Volta came up with his method, when an Englishman named Humphrey Davy started experiencing with the first electric lamp and showed it to the royal society in 1806, but came with the idea in 1802. The only thing that was wrong with his idea of the electric lamp was that the light burned out to quickly, his electric lamp was known as the arc lamp, and from then on it was a race to perfect Davy's idea of a light bulb.


But wait a minute. The invention did not stop there though, in 1840 approximately 34 years after Davy's invention did not work, in 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue developed in efficiently designed light bulb using coiled platinum filament in place of copper, since the cost of platinum was too high that kept it from being a commercial success. In 1841, maybe year after de la Rue's attempt on the electric light, a British inventor by the name of Frederick DeMoleyns enclosed his burner in a glass bulb, later on in 1845, John Wellington Starr an American inventor experimented with a patent using a vacuum and a carbon burner.


An English chemist named Joseph Swan started experimenting with burners of various materials, but unfortunate for him none of them worked. By now you probably get the idea of where I'm going with this. Thomas Edison was able to succeed with the light bulb because he developed a filament that utilized high resistance which would eventually light the light bulb without destroying it. The material was cheap which makes it more economically feasible to create the bulbs. Edison hired Princeton University physicist Francis Upton, by the end of 1880 the team of scientist or chemist were using long bamboo burners called filament which allowed the light to burn for up to 600 hours, two years later he created the Edison Electrical and Light Company.


Now that we know Thomas Edison did not actually invented the light bulb, the person that came up with the idea in the first place should get some kind of acknowledgment, and some kind of credit to the people that tried to perfected Davy's idea of a light bulb. They should at least mention them in the history book or some sort but the fact that we give all the credit to Edison for "inventing" the light bulb is not fair to the ones who contributed to it. Maybe the reason people give all the credit to Thomas Edison is because during that time inventions were coming to light rapidly and people not having some kind of electric light was an iconic problem; and in the same period of time he perfected it that's why he gets all the credit.

https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html
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