At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind ... of the critical flaws in the earlier light bulb designs and built on them. He discovered that a carbonised bamboo filament, housed in a near-perfect vacuum ...

The problem is, the wire — the filament — would burn up quickly ... We were all taught in school that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but the truth is much more complicated.

twisted light—known as chiral light—using technology reminiscent of Thomas Edison's light bulb, according to Phys.org. This innovation revisits the classic concept of blackbody radiation ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.