On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

In 1879, Thomas Edison had just perfected the world ... The classic mini light design—the familiar incandescent lights in tubular-shaped bulbs that come on perpetually tangled green wires ...

He gave public demonstrations of this scientific breakthrough in late 1878 and early 1879 ... world's first light bulb factory at Benwell in Newcastle. In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison ...

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about ... most famous inventions: his incandescent light bulb.