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Incandescent light bulb - Edison's first Successful Test

Time: Wednesday Oct 22, 1879

Place: New Jersey, U.S.

Details: After many experiments, first with carbon in the early 1880s and then with platinum and other metals, in the end Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on 22 October 1879, and lasted 13.5 hours.

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