Invention (Light Bulb)

Introduction:
A light bulb (also spelled light bulb) is a device that produces light from electricity. In addition
to lighting a dark space, they can be used to show an electronic device is on, to direct traffic, for
heat, and many other purposes.
Early people used candles and oil lamps for light (often from whale oil). Crude incandescent
lights were made in the early and middle 19th century but had little use.
Improved vacuum pumps and better materials made them shine longer and brighter late in the
century. Electric generator stations brought electricity to urban and later rural areas to power
them. Later gas discharge lights, including fluorescent lights, use less electricity to make more
light.

Biography of the inventor:

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was the last of
the seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. Thomas's father was an exiled political activist
from Canada. His mother, an accomplished school teacher, was a major influence in Thomas

early life. An early bout with scarlet fever as well as ear infections left him with hearing
difficulties in both ears, a malady that would eventually leave him nearly deaf as an adult.
Edison would later recount as an adult, with variations on the story, that he lost his hearing due
to a train incident where his ears were injured. But others have tended to discount this as the sole
cause of his hearing loss. In 1854, the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where Edison
attended public school for a total of 12 weeks. A hyperactive child, prone to distraction, he was
deemed "difficult" by his teacher. His mother quickly pulled him from school and taught him at
home. At age 11, he showed a voracious appetite for knowledge, reading books on a wide range
of subjects. In this wide-open curriculum Edison developed a process for self-education and
learning independently that would serve him throughout his life.
At age 12, Edison set out to put much of that education to work. He convinced his parents to let
him sell newspapers to passengers along the Grand Trunk Railroad line. Exploiting his access to
the news bulletins teletype to the station office each day, Thomas began publishing his own small
newspaper, called the Grand Trunk Herald. The up-to-date articles were a hit with passengers.
This was the first of what would become a long string of entrepreneurial ventures where he saw a
need and capitalized on opportunity. Edison also used his access to the railroad to conduct
chemical experiments in a small laboratory he set up in a train baggage car. During one of his
experiments, a chemical fire started and the car caught fire. The conductor rushed in and struck
Thomas on the side of the head, probably furthering some of his hearing loss. He was kicked off
the train and forced to sell his newspapers at various stations along the route. While he worked
for the railroad, a near-tragic event turned fortuitous for the young man. After Edison saved a 3year-old from being run over by an errant train, the childs grateful father rewarded him by
teaching him to operate a telegraph. By age 15, he had learned enough to be employed as a
telegraph operator. For the next five years, Edison traveled throughout the Midwest as an
itinerant telegrapher, subbing for those who had gone to the Civil War. In his spare time, he read
widely, studied and experimented with telegraph technology, and became familiar with electrical
science.
In 1866, at age 19, Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, working for The Associated Press.
The night shift allowed him to spend most of his time reading and experimenting. He developed
an unrestrictive style of thinking and inquiry, proving things to himself through objective
examination and experimentation. Initially, Edison excelled at his telegraph job because early
Morse code was inscribed on a piece of paper, so Edison's partial deafness was no handicap.
However, as the technology advanced, receivers were increasingly equipped with a sounding
key, enabling telegraphers to "read" message by the sound of the clicks. This left Edison
disadvantaged, with fewer and fewer opportunities for employment. In 1868, Edison returned
home to find his beloved mother was falling into mental illness and his father was out of work.
The family was almost destitute. Edison realized he needed to take control of his future. Upon
the suggestion of a friend, he ventured to Boston, landing a job for the Western Union Company.
At the time, Boston was America's center for science and culture, and Edison reveled in it.

In his spare time, he designed and patented an electronic voting recorder for quickly tallying
votes in the legislature. However, Massachusetts lawmakers were not interested. As they
explained, most legislators didn't want votes tallied quickly. They wanted time to change the
minds of fellow legislators.
The 1880s were a busy time for Thomas Edison. After being granted a patent for the light bulb in
January 1880, Edison set out to develop a company that would deliver the electricity to power
and light the cities of the world. That same year, Edison founded the Edison Illuminating
Companythe first investor-owned electric utilitywhich later became the General Electric
Corporation. In 1881, he left Menlo Park to establish facilities in several cities where electrical
systems were being installed. In 1882, the Pearl Street generating station provided 110 volts of
electrical power to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. In 1884 Edison's wife, Mary, died, and in
1886, he married Mina Miller, 19 years his junior. In 1887, Edison built an industrial research
laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, which served as the primary research laboratory for the
Edison lighting companies. He spent most of his time there, supervising the development of
lighting technology and power systems. He also perfected the phonograph, and developed the
motion picture camera and the alkaline storage battery.
As the automobile industry began to grow, Edison worked on developing a suitable storage
battery that could power an electric car. Though the gasoline-powered engine eventually
prevailed, Edison designed a battery for the self-starter on the Model T for friend and admirer
Henry Ford in 1912. The system was used extensively in the auto industry for decades. During
World War I, the U.S. government asked Thomas Edison to head the Naval Consulting Board,
which examined inventions submitted for military use. Edison worked on several projects,
including submarine detectors and gun-location techniques. However, due to his moral
indignation toward violence, he specified that he would work only on defensive weapons, later
noting, "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill." By the end of the 1920s
Thomas Edison was in his 80s and he slowed down somewhat, but not before he applied for the
last of his 1,093 U.S. patents, for an apparatus for holding objects during the electroplating
process. Edison and his second wife, Mina, spent part of their time at their winter retreat in Fort
Myers, Florida, where his friendship with automobile tycoon Henry Ford flourished and he
continued to work on several projects, ranging from electric trains to finding a domestic source
for natural rubber.
Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont,"
in West Orange, New Jersey. He was 84 years old. Many communities and corporations
throughout the world dimmed their lights or briefly turned off their electrical power to
commemorate his passing. Edison's career was the quintessential rags-to-riches success story that
made him a folk hero in America. An uninhibited egoist, he could be a tyrant to employees and
ruthless to competitors. Though he was a publicity seeker, he didnt socialize well and often
neglected his family. By the time he died he was one of the most well-known and respected
Americans in the world. He had been at the forefront of Americas first technological revolution
and set the stage for the modern electric world.

Physics principle involved:

The physics principle involved in the invention light bulb is the Quantum Physics. The three
major types of lights you can buy are incandescent bulbs, fluorescent lights (including compact
fluorescent lights), and light-emitting diodes. Incandescent bulbs are the normal type (though
they are becoming less so): They light up when an electric current runs through a thin wire made
of tungsten, which heats up. The wattage of an incandescent is a measure of how much power it
consumes, and most of that power goes to heat, not light, which is why you can burn your hand if
you touch a bulb thats been on any length of time. Because of the wasteful nature of that kind of
bulb, a lot of people have made the switch to compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), which dont run
hot and use a lot less power for the same amount of light. And they work by using quantum
mechanics!
Of course even incandescent bulbs are quantum-mechanical underneath: after all, everything is
quantum if you examine it closely enough. The everyday stuff of our lives is made of atoms,
which are built up of protons, neutrons, and electrons, governed by the laws of quantum
mechanics. However, the details of quantum mechanics often get blurred out, since we are big
(relatively speaking) and atoms are small. We cant ignore quantum effects for fluorescent lights,
though: The structure of atoms is what enables them to be higher efficiency than their
incandescent cousins.

Uses and Application of (Light Bulb)

Light bulbs are used so we could make lights and we could see through the dark. With the use of
the light bulbs we could read in the dark now and get some light. We could also sleep at night
peacefully if we have lights in our room and if we are scared at the dark. Light bulbs are also
used in flashlights so we could bring them anywhere that is dark. We just need to turn the switch
on and then boom Let there be light and we could see from the dark.

Conclusion
Therefore I conclude that the Light Bulb has changed the lives of many people. As you could see
if the Light Bulb is not invented the world will be dark without light that the light bulb make.

The help of the light bulb is enormous because the production of materials are going fast with the
help of it because if there is light even if it is night the people can still work without getting
conscious of the dark. The light bulb is pretty important in our daily lives! Did you ever think
that if the light bulb is not even invented our life will be this good? If it is not invented we will
always light candles and torches too see through the dark and it is pretty much a hassle to us but
if we have this light bulb we will just click the on and off switch to have light.
Before commercially viable light bulbs, it was uncommon for residential houses to have
electricity. After the light bulb was introduced, people signed up for electricity to be sent to their
homes. In the 1930s, 10 percent of people living in rural, remote areas had electricity in their
homes. By the 1960s, most people had electricity. With brighter lights to illuminate their
surroundings, people began reading more, learning facilities held classes after dark, and there
was a steady rise in higher education enrollment among the general population. This spurred the
advancement of technology. In the years since the light bulb was invented, there have been more
technological advancements than in any other historical time period. This also meant that people
had more money than ever before, which boosted the economy. The population of the towns
surrounding the factories and mills grew as people moved to find work, or to find towns in which
they could open their own businesses.