National Museum of American History
Edison "New Year's Eve" Lamp
Edison, Thomas Alva · 1879
Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention, the first practical electric incandescent lamp, which took place at his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory on New Year's Eve, 1879.
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