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.
1876 Charles Brush invented the âopen coilâ dynamo (or generator) that could produce a study current of electricity. 1878 Joseph Swan, and Englishman, invented the first incandescent lightbulb (also called an âelectric lampâ). His lightbulb burned out quickly.