Who is the real inventor of the light bulb?

Screwing over just one inventor might be alright for Galileo, but Edison was a dreamer and he couldn't be satisfied with just one, dead disgraced inventor under his belt. So, after Goebel, and a year before Edison "invented" his light bulb, Joseph Wilson Swan developed and patented a working light bulb.Mar 28, 2008 read more

The incandescent light bulb first shone after years of work by many notable figures who contributed to the development of this revolutionary technology. Thomas Edison built on their successes and patented the first commercially successful light bulb. read more

Thomas Edison is revered as a great American inventor, and his incandescent bulb is considered one of the most important inventions of the modern world. But in The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America, Ernest Freeberg shows that the light bulb reflected the work of many inventors, rather than Edison’s lone genius. read more