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The document provides a timeline history of the development of the incandescent light bulb from 1802 to 1883. Some key events include: - In 1802, Humphry Davy created the first electric light using a platinum strip but it was not practical. - In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay developed a more efficient light but focused on other areas of research. - In the late 1870s and early 1880s, several inventors including Edison and Swan were experimenting with carbon filaments and developing practical incandescent light bulbs. - In 1881, the Savoy Theatre in London became the first public building lit entirely by electricity using Swan's light bulbs

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History Incandescent Lamp

The document provides a timeline history of the development of the incandescent light bulb from 1802 to 1883. Some key events include: - In 1802, Humphry Davy created the first electric light using a platinum strip but it was not practical. - In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay developed a more efficient light but focused on other areas of research. - In the late 1870s and early 1880s, several inventors including Edison and Swan were experimenting with carbon filaments and developing practical incandescent light bulbs. - In 1881, the Savoy Theatre in London became the first public building lit entirely by electricity using Swan's light bulbs

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History

1802 - Humphry Davy's Experiment.

In 1802, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. Davy used
what he described as "a battery of immense size", consisting of 2,000 cells housed in the
basement of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, to create an incandescent light by
passing the current, through a thin strip of platinum, (chosen because the metal had an
extremely high melting point.) It was not bright enough nor did it last long enough to
be practical.

1835 - Lindsay demonstrated a Constant Electric Light

In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay, a lecturer at the Watt Institution in Scotland, at the
time, had developed a light that was not combustible, created no smoke or smell, and
was less expensive to produce than Davy's platinum-dependent bulb. However, he
turned to the problem of wireless telegraphy and did not develop the electric light any
further.

1841- The First patent for an Incandescent Lamp

In 1841, Frederick de Moleyns of England was granted the first patent for an
incandescent lamp, with a design using platinum wires contained within a vacuum bulb.
He also used carbon.

1845 - The Incandescent Light bulb involving the use of Carbon Filaments

In 1845, American John W. Starr acquired a patent for his incandescent light bulb
involving the use of carbon filaments. He died shortly after obtaining the patent, and his
invention was never produced commercially.

1859 - Electric Incandescent Light bulb using a Platinum Filament

In 1859, Moses G. Farmer built an electric incandescent light bulb using a platinum
filament. He later patented a light bulb which was purchased by Thomas Edison.

1874 - Canadian Patent was filed

In 1874, a Canadian patent was filed by Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans for a lamp
consisting of carbon rods mounted in a nitrogen-filled glass cylinder. They were
unsuccessful at commercializing their lamp and sold rights to their patent (U.S. Patent
0,181,613) to Thomas Edison in 1879.
1878 - Discovering a method of processing that avoided the early bulb blackening

In 1878, With the help of Charles Stearn, an expert on vacuum pumps, Joseph Swan
developed a method of Processing That avoided the early bulb blackening. This received
a British Patent in 1880.

1879 - Edison's first Successful Test

After many experiments, first with carbon in the early 1880s and then with platinum and
other metals, in the end Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test
was on 22 October 1879, and lasted 13.5 hours

1879 - Edison filed for a US Patent for an Electric Lamp using a Carbon Filament or
Strip Coiled and connected to platina contact wires

Edison continued to improve this design and by 4 November 1879, filed for a US patent
for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina
contact wires." (Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon
filament including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various
ways," Edison and his team later discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could
last more than 1200 hours.)

1881 - The First public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity

In 1881, the Savoy Theatre in the City of Westminster, London was lit by joseph Swan
incandescent lightbulbs, which was the first theatre, and the first public building in the
world, to be lit entirely by electricity.

1883 - The United States Patent Office gave a ruling about Edison's Patents

In January 1880, William Edward Sawyer (and Albon Man) filed a patent application in
which they stated: “Our improvement consists, firsts, of the combination, in a lamp-
chamber composed wholly of glass as described in Patent No. 205,144, of an
incandescing conductor of carbon made from a vegetable fibrous material, in
contradistinction to a similar conductor made from mineral or gas carbon, from such
vegetable carbon, and combined in the lighting circuit within the exhausted chamber of
the lamp” The United States Patent Office gave a ruling on 8 October 1883, that Edison's
patents were based on the prior art of William Sawyer and were invalid.
Sawyer and Man In January 1880, William Edward Sawyer and Albon Man filed a patent
application in which they stated: Our improvement consists, firsts, of the combination, in
a lamp-chamber composed wholly of glass as described in Patent No. 205,144, of an
incandescing conductor of carbon made from a vegetable fibrous material, in
contradistinction to a similar conductor made from mineral or gas carbon, from such
vegetable carbon, and combined in the lighting circuit within the exhausted chamber of
the lamp. A fierce legal contest arose in 1879 in which Sawyer and Man contested
patent claims made by Thomas A. Edison. The U.S. Patent Office declared an
interference between the Sawyer and Man application of January 1880, and one filed the
previous month by Edison. A protracted content resulted in a decision rendered in 1885
by the Commissioner who stated: I think it is fully and clearly shown that Sawyer and
Man were the first inventors of the incandescent conductor for an electric lamp formed
of carbonized paper

History of Incandescent light bulb - Timeline - Historydraft

. A. Furfari, "Early development of the incandescent lamp," in IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, vol.
12, no. 2, pp. 7-9, March-April 2006, doi: 10.1109/MIA.2006.1598019.

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