
There has been millions upon millions of inventions invented by different brilliant people, that we would be no where in life without today. Like the light bulb we were always taught in school that Thomas Edison invented it but in reality it wasn't him he perfected it. Though it was actually 20 other scientists who had different patents on it, but none of there were successful as Edison's they tried but faced many different obstacles.
Edison deserves to be credited as the inventor of the light bulb, because he perfected the light bulb by finding the right materials and doing more research. He did what others couldn't, by making it commericially successful and mass producing it.
Many men tried to work on the light bulb but failed. According to ''Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb'', English man Humphrey Davy showed his electric lamp invention to the royal society and the light burned out so quickly. Joseph Swan began experimenting with different materials but none of them worked for any amount of time to be recorded.

Edison actually bought the patented and produced light bulb from Henry Woodard and Matthew Evans, their light bulb was made from a large piece of carbon connected to two wires and filled their inert with nitrogen, but they failed to find financial helpers and weren't able to put the invention out .According to ''Canadian invention-- the light bulb''. Thomas Edison perfected it by designing his own with high resistance thin filament of carbon and a high vaccum with a sealed off glass ,which resulted in a life of 1200 hours. Edison was able to mass produce and it was able to sale over 300,00 bulbs in the United States.
The definition of Invention is the Process within a overall engineering and product development process , It may be a improvement upon a product or a new process and that is what Thomas Edison did so he should continue to be credited with inventing the light bulb.
https://www.dww.com/articles/canadian-inventions-%E2%80%93-light-bulb
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/who-really-invented-the-light-bulb/
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