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.
This is an early sketch from Thomas Edison of his light bulb. Thomas Edisonâs serious incandescent light bulb research began in 1878, filing his first patent later that yearâ¦âImprovement In Electric Lightsâ in October 1878.homas Edison Lightbulb. Let there be Light! Historians agree that Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the electric light bulb, but he did produce the first commercially viable one.