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    Bearing in mind the probability that this question has been asked before at some point or other, just who did actually invent the electric lightbulb, if not Edison?

    Question #33057. Asked by Norwich. (May 05 03 5:43 PM)


    mochyn

    		http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/latimer.html

    Lewis H Latimer?

    May 05 03, 6:02 PM
    Linus

    		Warren de la Rue (depending on what you define as a 'light bulb')...

    http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Ontario/first_electric_light_bulb.htm

    May 05 03, 7:34 PM
    Watchkeeper

    		"Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (October 31, 1828 – May 27, 1914) was an English physicist and chemist, most famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb for which he received the first patent in 1878. His house was the first in the world to be lit by a lightbulb."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan

    May 31 09, 6:59 PM

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