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.
The Electric Lamp and the Light Bulb. The year when Edison first produced reliable electric light was in 1879, guiding us to the electrical age. He invented the incandescent light bulb along with the systems comprising it (a parallel circuit, an improved dynamo, devices for constant voltage, light sockets with switches).