Inventions
12:12 pm
Wed March 13, 2013

Shining Light On The Age Of Edison

Credit Flickr Photo/terren in Virginia
An original carbon-filament Edison lightbulb from 1879.

When Thomas Edison displayed the first lightbulbs the reaction was utter amazement. University of Tennessee history professor Ernest Freeberg talks with Ross Reynolds about how Edison’s wonder invented modern America.

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