Duplicating Edison’s Iconic Invention For Light’s Golden Jubilee
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Light’s Golden Jubilee
As early as 1761, Ebenezer Kinnersley demonstrated the possibility of wire being heated to incandescence. Humphry Davy used a giant battery to make a light bulb with platinum in 1802, and a number of other inventors refined the device over the coming century until Edison commercialized the product.