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The lightbulb is one of the most important inventions for the progress of civilization. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison first showed the world the electric lamp with a bulb that was on for 48 hours. A few months later Edison presented in his laboratory a circuit of 40 lightbulbs which he switched on and off, astonishing all the people who came to see this new invention. Light Bulb
Just a month after the presentation, on January 27, 1880, Edison received the patent for the lightbulb. The controversy came at the time because there were other earlier inventors who were shown to have invented lightbulbs before Edison. Some of these characters were Joseph Swan, Humphry Davy, and Henry Woodward who could prove that they had made inventions very similar to Edison's
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