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Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

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Thomas Edison
Joseph Swan
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Similarly, who truly invented the light bulb?

Thomas Edison

who invented the light bulb Tesla or Edison? Big Tesla Fan! In fact an Englishman Joseph Swan was the inventor of the lightbulb! No he did NOT! He like Edison came up with a patent a year before Edison to IMPROVE THE LIGHT BULB not invent the lightbulb You need to a o so one more research.

Keeping this in view, when was the incandescent light bulb invented?

The first practical incandescent light bulb Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament.

Who invented bulb first time?

Thomas Alva Edison

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