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.
1878 Thomas Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company 1878 Hiram Maxim founded the United States Electric Lighting Company 1878 205,144 William Sawyer and Albon Man 6/18 for Improvements in Electric Lamps 1878 Swan receives a UK patent for an improved.