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03-17-2015, 10:27 AM #2
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Argh! Edison wasn't the "first to bring the light bulb in to reality". Swan in the UK had a commercial long life light bulb on the market a year before Edison. What's more, Edison only succeeded when he copied Swan's UK patent.
After going at it in the courts for a while they finally joined forces to form the Edison-Swan Electric Lighting Company. After a while Swan got bored of the business and left. Immediately Edison set about re-writing history to create a false legacy as the inventor of the lightbulb.
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