Incandescent light bulb street in the world to be lit by an incandescent lightbulb was Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. It was lit by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879. Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp in 1878. Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights" on 14 October 1878. After many experiments, first with carbon in the early 1880s and then with platinum and other metals, in the end Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on 22 October 1879, and lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued
An Englishman in New York (film) An Englishman in New York (film) An Englishman in New York is a 2009 biographical film that chronicles the years gay English writer Quentin Crisp spent in New York City, starring John Hurt reprising his role as Crisp from "The Naked Civil Servant" (1975). The film takes its title from "Englishman in New York", a song about Crisp written by Sting for the 1987 album "...Nothing Like the Sun". The film follows Quentin Crisp’s move in the late 1970s from London to New York City, where he was embraced by celebrities and artists. Crisp becomes a local, and then more