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.
Eventually they would glow for up to 1,200 hours. Electric lamps: Joseph Swanâs 1878 invention (left) and Thomas Edisonâs light bulb of 1879. Swan vs Edison. Edison went on to make big buck from the light bulb but Swan sued Edison for infringement and won.ritish inventor Humphry Davy invented an incandescent light bulb in 1801 and created the âarc lampâ in 1809. In 1835, Scottish inventor James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light in Dundee.