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.
While many people think that Thomas Edison created the light bulb,  it was invented in 1879 by Joseph Swan.    Later, Edison took Joseph Swan's ideas and made them intâ¦o a  different idea to create the longer lasting light bulb.    The first practical lightbulb was invented by Thomas Edison in  1879.