By Deb Oestreicher on December 27, 2005. Format: Paperback. I heard the title The Man with the Golden Arm long before I ever read the book or saw the movie. It's a beautiful, evocative title, but it also makes you think of something grotesque: a man with a shiny prosthetic.
Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb in 1879, patenting it the following year. Before getting the right design for a long-burning, pleasant light for indoor use, he experimented with more than 1,600 different bulbs.
History of the Light Microscope. Light microscopes date at least to 1595, when Zacharias Jansen (1580â1638) of Holland invented a compound light microscope, one that used two lenses, with the second lens further magnifying the image produced by the first.