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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The short days in the long and harsh winters created a much more compelling need for breakthrough inventions like the light bulb or electric heater or piped hot water and indoor toilets.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The notion that Asians are primitives who recently stumbled onto modernity by grasping western coattails is grounded on hoary faith on the seminal importance of western inventions like the light bulb or the transistor.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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The Inventions Time Line begins with Gutenberg's famous printing press on which he printed the first Bible, and continues through such inventions as the telescope, the Franklin stove, the battery, telephone, barbed wire, light bulb, x-ray, airplane, laser and the space shuttle.
Not the actual light bulb - but the multitude of other inventions, developments and discoveries which all came about before the light bulb COULD be invented.
From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The nineteenth century inventions such as the telephone, the typewriter, and the incandescent light bulb were basic tools of early twentieth century business communications and American urban culture.
Print out the short history of Edison's invention of the light bulb.
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Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist
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The phonograph, the light bulb, movies, storage batteries and literally thousands of other inventions are attributed to the workaholic former telegraph operator from Port Huron, Mich.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives" by Ira Flatow -- get a copy personally autographed by Ira!
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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So also must have been the case with Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph, and with Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb.
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