Thomas Edison is really who invented the modern Incandescent Light Bulb.
However the electric light was not originally invented by Thomas Edison and instead by Humphry Davy in 1802 and then later Thomas Edison Perfected the light bulb.
The inventor of the light bulb is actually more than just one person although Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb.
In 1802, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light.
He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light.
His invention was known as the Electric Arc lamp.
And while it produced light, it didn’t produce it for long and was much too bright for practical use.
Over the next seven decades, other inventors also created “light bulbs” but no designs emerged for commercial application.
More notably, in 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it.
The design was based on the concept that the high melting point of platinum would allow it to operate at high temperatures and that the evacuated chamber would contain fewer gas molecules to react with the platinum, improving its longevity.
Although an efficient design, the cost of the platinum made it impractical for commercial production.
In 1850 an English physicist named Joseph Wilson Swan created a “light bulb” by enclosing carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb.
And by 1860 he had a working prototype, but the lack of a good vacuum and an adequate supply of electricity resulted in a bulb whose lifetime was much too short to be considered an effective producer of light.
However, in the 1870’s better vacuum pumps became available and Swan continued experiments on light bulbs.
In 1878, Swan developed a longer lasting light bulb using a treated cotton thread that also removed the problem of early bulb blackening.
On July 24, 1874 a Canadian patent was filed by a Toronto medical electrician named Henry Woodward and a colleague Mathew Evans.
They built their lamps with different sizes and shapes of carbon rods held between electrodes in glass cylinders filled with nitrogen.
Woodward and Evans attempted to commercialize their lamp, but were unsuccessful.
They eventually sold their patent to Edison in 1879.
The inventor of electricity that we use today was originally invented by Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla is the inventor of the alternating current AC motor and the AC electrical system.
However electricity has been around for many years but only in forms such as lightning and magnetism but it wasn't until someone discovered that moving a magnet between coils of wire could create electricity.
Michael Faraday created the DC generator which was first used for electricity and then the AC generator was later invented.
One of the first dynamo generators was built by Hippolyte Pixii in 1832.
The dynamo was the first electrical generator capable of delivering power for industry.
The Woolrich Electrical Generator of 1844, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, is the earliest electrical generator used in an industrial process.
Thomas Edison also invented and developed an electric generator to power his light bulb.
In order to develop a successful incandescent lamp, Edison had to design an entire electrical system, which he modeled after the gas lighting systems used in large cities.
In addition to these components, Edison also had to design an electrical generator and the network it powered.
So several people are credited for creating and inventing the electricity we use today.
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power into electrical power for use in an external circuit.
Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, internal combustion engines, wind turbines and even hand cranks.
Electric generators work on the principle of electromagnetic induction.
A conductor coil (a copper coil tightly wound onto a metal core) is rotated rapidly between the poles of a horseshoe type magnet.
The magnetic field will interfere with the electrons in the conductor to induce a flow of electric current inside it.