
Imagine living in a home with no light. Well 125 years ago not many had lights in their homes, their way through one room to another wasn't brighten up. Technology was way out off their leagues, their only thing to lighten their way were candles. Humphrey Davy, an English scientist experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery (in the 1800s). When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc.This led him to create the first electric light bulb. Then, 60 years later, an English physicist, Joseph Wilson Swan, found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In 1878, he demonstrated his new electric lamps and determined to provide practical


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