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Edison experimented with thousands of different light bulb filaments to find just the right materials to glow well
Edison's first job was as a telegraph operator
Thomas Alva Edison
He was an inventor, he invented the lightbulb and the phonograph. He made more than 100 inventions, and some might be minor, and some might be major. He once made a goal that he was to invent a minor...
Edison's bid for the sale of his chair was a mere formality and a ploy to have the Westinghouse system of electricity chosen by New York for the electric chair. He endorsed the Westinghouse AC system of electricity as the system of choice to be used for the electric chair, reasoning that the public would associate the Westinghouse AC system with the killing power of the electric chair, and would see the system as unsafe for household use.
The first light bulbs lasted a mere 150 hours, and that ten years later, Edison introduced one that lasted 1,200 hours? The average light bulb today lasts approximately 1,500 hours.
•They wouldn't have to light a candle therefore minimising the risk of a fire starting out.
•People could now have ,light at the flick of a switch.
•Not only was the invention of a light bulb another light source it was the discovery of using electricity.