Who Actually Invented the Lightbulb?

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Who invented the telephone? How about the airplane? The lightbulb? If you paid attention in high school history class, you’ll probably know the standard answers: Alexander Graham Bell, The Wright Brothers, and Thomas Edison. But if you’ve been watching our channels long enough, you’ll also know that when it comes to the big inventions that have most shaped our modern world, things are never so simple. And the story of the invention of the lightbulb is no different. While perhaps the most famous creation attributed to inventor extraordinaire Thomas Edison, the incandescent light bulb was actually in development for nearly a century before Edison finally perfected it and brought it to the masses. This is the story of the dozens of inventors who struggled to harness the power of electricity to banish the darkness of night and bring about a technological and social revolution.
Author: Gilles Messier
Host: Simon Whistler
Producer: Daven Hiskey
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[@TodayIFoundOut]

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[@joyouknow5385]

A few minutes in and literally waiting to see if there is a mere mention of Lewis Latimer carbon filament... I'll update once I have completed this video. Will I be pleasantly surprised or predictably disappointed... I expect the worst & hope for the best... UPDATE: -- I AM PREDICTABLY DISAPPOINTED... Not even an honorable mention.

[@bradlevantis913]

Edison once said “Genius is 1% inspiration 99% patent law”

[@DenisKz]

And then came along Tesla with his more efficient ac electricity and his wireless fluorescent lights. Eddison is what China is today, a big intellectual property thief.

[@furiouslester]

On a quick glance, i thought this sed “GONZ is”.

[@furiouslester]

Legally i didn’t say that.

[@magnemoe1]

One issue with traditional light bulbs is that is easy to make them long lasting by making them inefficient. So it made perfect sense to limit life span places like living rooms there they are easy to replace like in an living room. In places like traffic light or train signal lights using less efficient but longer lasting light makes sense. Also places like indicator lights in dashboards. Who was one of the fist places LED was used. And as good LED lights is today, its just +10 time more energy efficient and much longer lasting, its saves on the power bill who is nice it don't change the world.

[@jamesslick4790]

You can tell that English is not the commenter's first language, but I understood their comment. That's the point of language. Don't be "that guy". P.S. I raised an English teacher that mocks "Grammar Nazis" as many of her ESL students do BETTER than us "native" speakers!

[@woodchild2093]

​@@MLG85 well the person probably speaks more languages than you do. Also you do know the internet is world wide right. I'm guessing you might live in the USA at a guess hahahaha

[@MLG85]

Relax fellas! No I am most certainly not from the US!!

[@playedout148]

It'll be thousands of little things that might keep the planet able to support life. I'm still thinking hellscape tho.

[@treverdrew6993]

LED bulbs suck in quality for the most part. Their solder joints break way too often to be practical.

[@fearthehoneybadger]

I want to know how you could tell how someone had an idea before the light bulb was invented to pop up over their head.

[@mimetype]

A Candle would appear.

[@williamklemp3764]

​@@mimetype and before that, it was a campfire or a torch

[@joelb8653]

Asking the real questions.

[@hashfors]

Started with two stones

[@womble321]

The light dawned

[@hisvin]

The bulb you're talking about, in the end of the video, gives less light than a candle, and it's hardly surprising that it's been burning for decades.

[@pamelamays4186]

Meanwhile in the Blazement they're sharing one sad little candle. 🕯️😮‍💨😢

[@kevinyoung9706]

Thank you Simon, and thank you to those locked in Simons basement.

[@Hillbilly001]

It was the Lizard Overlords. It's their plot to make us scared of the dark. Cheers

[@julianaylor4351]

We have been saved from the Vashta Narada. 😆

[@haskelswain1842]

Referring to you statement of planned obsolescence, the channel "technology connections" very clearly debunks this related to light bulbs. Also explains the lightbulb in the fire station still burning. It is a must see episode on a great channel

[@fidelramen5202]

Technology Creations solidified my belief that Edison was a scum. it might not be a planned obsolescence, but holding on and outright banning new and more efficient technology is equally damning. That lightbulb can barely light up a room.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

I've seen that episode of Technology Connections and, as ever, he has a lot of good points. Great channel. But it's also not quite as black and white as that end either. The evidence does seem to be there was a strong impetus for planned obsolescence as well. Both points are true. Nuance as ever. Nothing black and white. And the interesting parts are all the details. :-) -Daven

[@playedout148]

Follow the 💵

[@renaissancejames]

Great video. I actually grew up in Livermore, California, and biked past that fire station almost daily for school, on occasion stopping at the station to fill up my bike tires.

[@dohanddonuts5716]

I came here to see if he was going to mention our light bulb. Not only are we known for this, but we are also known for the National Ignition Facility Laser that made a major breakthrough for fusion power this year..

[@jamesslick4790]

It truly was the centralized power generation and distribution that earned Edison his fame for the incandescent light bulb. Sure he improved the bulbs themselves, but making the use of them convenient by having a complete SYSTEM is what was the "game changer".

[@DeeArr]

Edison pushed DC power which had a terrible distribution potential compared to Tesla's/Westinghouse's AC supply.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@DeeArr Yes, The AC system is vastly superior to DC. Edison got fame for being able to set up a system first. But the first is not always the best. Westinghouse WON in the REAL WORLD, Edison won in the press/ pop culture. You can be SURE we still use Westinghouse! 👍👍

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Electric lamps of that Era had to have burned out bulbs changed by an electrician. If one of Edison's electricians did the job, he would change the fixture so that it would only handle Edison's bulbs.

[@demonorb8634]

Before light bulbs people had candles pop up over their head on having an idea! Hot wax was a common problem.

[@RazingthenRaising]

12:20, you talk about the problem of water in the glass during the forming process. That made me realize why old (pre 1960's) lights would sometimes explode the very first time they were turned on! Wow! I ALWAYS have wondered about that!

[@echothebm]

Fun fact : In 1891, Hammerfest was the very first town in Northern Europe to have electricity. It lasted for one hour, and then the electricity cables froze. It took a year to insulate all the cables before the lights could be turned back on again. So Hammerfest is a pioneering town with long experience of supplying energy. Energihuset, a modern energy science centre housed in a hydropower plant dating from 1946, demonstrates that the Hammerfest area is also quite literally an energetic centre for advancement of the energy supply in the far north of Norway.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

The history and details in this video were so enlightening

[@kingnekogon]

I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling brighter after watching it!

[@INJURYCOMP]

Indeed. Nevertheless, it had a dark side, also.

[@syndrome5372]

The first person who had an idea had one pop up above their head. It took a while to work out what the hell it was and replicate it, but i guess youd have to credit whoever had the first idea.

[@Rydonattelo]

There were people alive in the 70s that could remember a time before there was electric lights anywhere.

[@futurepig]

There are still places where that is true. We are so used to have some artificial light somewhere at all times, many people have never experienced total darkness. Sometimes I drive away from cities into wilderness areas, on backroads with no lights and in a moonless night, you turn off the car's headlight and it's pitch black.

[@Margarinetaylorgrease]

That planned obsolescence bit is disputed.

[@ticijevish]

The inventor of the Tungsten filament was Franjo Hanaman. Alexander Just was his assistant. The Hungarian lamps were made according to Hanaman's patent.

[@henrikjensen3278]

For electric distribution Edison lost to Westinghouse. Edisons ideas was totally hopeless, it needed extremely thick copper conductors. Westinghouse used AC and transformers. Initially the problem was motors, they required DC, but it got fixed.

[@jamesslick4790]

Edison likely thought multiple power plants (Made by Edison of course!) would be more profitable than fewer, but larger plants. George Westinghouse had experience in Natural gas distribution where high pressure was used for distance and low pressure at the user end. When Westinghouse got into electricity, He could see where AC was obviously more efficient an would be the way to go. Westinghouse is not only an underrated inventive genius, but also a good dude all around. He is not as famous as Edison because he let the ACTUAL inventors that worked for him patent under THEIR OWN names. Edison's name is on patents for shit his EMPLOYEES actually invented, Giving him the fame. Edison was Steve Jobs! George Westinghouse was the REAL DEAL. A man worthy of more fame and study!

[@vintageman91]

Did i hear it right that the 1901 lightbulb at the firestation is still working? Thats what i call high quality.

[@davideldridge3686]

There was more to the standardization of the light bulb by the cartel than just their bottom line. It also was to stop bulb manufacturers from claiming long life bulbs but putting out unusable illumination like that bulb in the fire station. (seriously, that thing is so dim it's no wonder lasts forever). It actually helped the consumer also since they didn't have to try to figure out brightness, efficiency, and life for every single manufacturer.

[@jamesgarrett8833]

Hey Simon, you make so many videos, how do you still come up with ideas to teach us on historical topics. In case, you are running low on topics, an idea I have is do a video on the origin and history of capes

[@Dontdoit_]

He has a whole team

[@peterq1978]

the minions in the basement do thay, he is just the face, the beloved Leader.

[@treverdrew6993]

Hahaha

[@addicted2monster88]

There's a reddit with most of/all of the team. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it is off the top of my head. But you can suggest topics on there. At this point they've surely got some sort of a spreadsheet to keep track of them all. I think he's got 10 or so channels he does

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Thanks for mentioning the Cartel...that could be a story in itself. It delayed the highest quality bulbs reaching the populace for decades, by stifling competition.

[@liamwinter4512]

In the 8th grade I did my science report on the creation of the lightbulb. Another student did the same thing but changed all the names of the scientist to African style names and pasted pictures of black men next to the inventions and the report was on how the white man stole the black man's light. I had my report taken down and I had to apologize to my class for my racism. I was taken out of the school 2 weeks later. It's one of the most surreal moments of my life. This was in 1999.

[@Roger44477]

...sure bud

[@dogwalker666]

Despite the fact that the first house in the world to be lit with electric lights powered by a hydro electric generator was in the UK, Northumberland to be precise.

[@swl9104]

Well, as everybody knows, Africans had airplanes, space ships, microwave ovens etc. BEFORE the infernal White Man came around and done gone stole the technology.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

I call BS. Try again.

[@therakshasan8547]

The majority of Edison's inventions were created by other people . He just got the Patent for it before others .

[@liamthompson9342]

So Edison formed a company with the guy he sued and lost to. That's a pragmatist.

[@jimmytrex0920]

Fun fact: 2 Canadian inventors, Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans, successfully produced and patented an electric filament lamp in 1874. However, they couldn’t find enough funding from investors, which called it a “useless invention” and eventually decided to sell their patents to Tomas Edison in 1879, for about $5000 USD, worth about $100,000 USD today. Edison then developed an improved product, and was able to market it accordingly due to his funds. (Edit: I just watched the video and he mentioned everything I mentioned! Thanks you for mentioning 2 important figures in the light’s history!)

[@Puddingbat]

Just wanted to say that Simons beard looks great.

[@KingAlanI]

Lots of scientific/technical advancements weren't created whole cloth by the known inventor, they had key improvements and better circumstances for it. For example, there was moveable type in China and Korea before Gutenberg, but Gutenberg used different metal for it and had a different press design, plus a couple dozen characters in European languages is easier to work with than thousands in Asian languages.

[@mack1305]

My great grandfather was hired to go around Greensboro NC and scrape the carbon off of the street lights. He eventually went to work for first telephone company.

[@kaleberg1528]

The light bulb was such a good idea, it became the symbol of a good idea

[@alanhilder1883]

About 3 minutes in --- The hero for a time was an inanimate carbon rod, Homer Simpson is again left out

[@dohanddonuts5716]

Don't forget the safety legs that he created in "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrance". Of course he wasn't given credit for, since, well, he's Homer Simpsons.

[@bradlevantis913]

The Toronto connection and the fact that they sold their patent is a source of pride for us in the 6ix

[@a.t._hall827]

Maybe we could get a follow-up video on LEDs? Sounds interesting to me

[@mimetype]

Pavel Yerblockoff? I'll Pavel Hisblockoff!

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

16:16 The longevity of that bulb came completely becasue it was never turned off. Incandescent bulbs almost without exception break when they're switched on. Because a cold tungsten wire has low resistance there's a high inrush current when switching on, which may even be worsened when this happens when the voltage is at its highest.

[@Synan.]

I feel enlightened by this video ❤

[@Proud2bmodest]

Edward Weston created Tamidine which made carbon light bulb filaments practical.

[@lilbaz8073]

Before the lightbulb was invented. What appeared above a cartoon characters head when they had an idea?

[@haskelswain1842]

Watch "technology connections " has a great video explaining that the lightbulb is not planned obsolescence

[@coeal2680]

Wrong, manufacturers didnt start reducing the effective life span of bulbs because it was eating into thier bottom line. They created planned obsolescence because bulbs dimed as they aged, essentially becoming useless. But many people would still keep using those old bulbs, even as they become (slightly) dangerous. Technology Connections did a full deep dive into that topic

[@playedout148]

No.

[@heidismith2077]

just got some magic spoon cereal for the first time, the chocolate flavor, 2 boxes at 98 cents each for a total of $1.96 all together at my local grocery store here in wa state, aka america lol, its awesome!! i love it! thankyou for sharing it in your vids! stay amazing :)

[@evasara7477]

How about Arturo Malignani, friulian scientist?

[@Dexy83]

The biggest thing I learned, or realized, is how young the bulb actually is! 😂

[@kjs8719]

It was actually me. You're welcome.

[@GwydionsAstralCoffeehouse]

Banished Be the darkness of light, the absence of night, the… wait a minute…

[@ChuckNorrisUltra]

And thus, instead of calling them inventors, they shall now be all know as improvers.

[@dspectre]

My uncle used carbon rods to power his projectors for decades in his drive-in theater until it was closed down in September of 2013.

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

I invented the lightbulb. No one was impressed by my invention so I invented the time machine and went back in time to show off my light bulb. Unfortunately it was stolen. But they didnt steal my method of generating limitless clean energy.

[@leeleeds255]

Never mentioned, fluorescent lighting. Alternating current. Ground glass fittings on incandescent lightbulbs. LED, light emitting diode lighting. Nikola Tesla. Without him no electrical lighting would be possible.

[@leeleeds255]

Why Simon? Why? My footnote would be, please read Marc Seifer's biography of Nikola Tesla, please read.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

hirum maxim, so people could see his cool new machinegun

[@anthonyperno1348]

It seems that Edison didn't invent the light blub, but we wouldn't have it without him.

[@thekeytoairpower]

The cartel story whilst true is mostly innacurate. Bulb life is inversely proportional to efficiency... if you want light that puts out x lumens for y watts it will last for z hours, all else being equal... you can move any of x y and z up but the combination of the other 2 will go down. The co conspiritors just all agreed that a more efficient, brighter light was preferable to a longer lasting one... it actually even helped consumers because the reduction in electricity usage generally exceeds the price of a bulb. If you burn 5c less electricity a day from a more efficient bulb, it only has to last about 30 days to pay for itself (assuming a bulb costs $1.50 which was on the high end for the 30 seconds i spent googling).

[@lorensims4846]

Of course, at the same time, Nikola Tesla had already perfected his fluorescing globes and tubes. There's a photo of Mark Twain holding one of the globes. Edison's "community power," using direct current, would have required a power station every few blocks and was clearly impractical. Tesla had licensed his patents for the AC motor to George Westinghouse who envisioned using the motors as generators of alternating current electricity which could be easily distributed across the country. Realizing Tesla's dream, he built the hydroelectric generating plant at Niagara Falls. This is what powered all those Edison bulbs in New York. But, no, Nikola Tesla wasn't big on self-promotion. He only wanted enough money to continue his work. Oh, they say the Underwood typewriter company went out of business because nobody was replacing their typewriters. They still work well.

[@1965Grit]

Edison sued Tesla and Westinghouse for violating his patten on the one piece light bulb, so Tesla adapted and invented the first two piece light bulbs which is the type that we used for over a century.

[@julianaylor4351]

Like a lot good ideas, other ideas are needed to make an invention work well. Another example is tinned food, with the modern tin opener, taking another half a century to appear. With light bulbs it's all down to the filament quality and the container for it, after that the power supply. 💡

[@AcornElectron]

I did

[@mimetype]

Hey! It wasn't you. I did.

[@AcornElectron]

@@mimetype shhhhhh!

[@INJURYCOMP]

Planned obsolescence. I think some modern things have this built in. Printers last only so long. lol.

[@rednival]

I am disappointed with Simon here for brushing over the Phoebus Cartel. The detail everyone casually omits about that the lightbulb in New York is that it’s extremely dull. Reducing lifespan had the side effect of increasing brightness, and the fact that is rarely mentioned in any discussion of this issue. As with any cartel, there is ample evidence the group’s primary objective was to protect profits, but it is not as simple as they all just agreed to make a thing worse. They agreed making brighter, shorter lifespan bulbs would be better for their industry and bottom lines. It’s debatable if this truly qualifies as planned obsolescence since reducing lifespan had positives associated with it, but it doesn’t change the fact that the goal was to force all parties involved to agree to the option that worked our best for them.

[@Gsoda35]

the old lightbulbs have an extremely short lifespan so I gave up on them for light-emitting diodes LED. why go back when LEDs survives brutality and time?

[@stianberg5645]

Thomas Edison might be to the lightbulb as what Steve Jobs was to the smartphone.

[@CharIie83]

let there be light

[@furiouslester]

Willy Shakes kinda contained it to a Globe. The.

[@behnkarrlsun]

Have you ever explored how much Thomas Edison actually invented, or how much he was actually directly involved with?

[@rdmsh]

Inanimate carbon rods you say?

[@Space_Debris]

😜7:05 *1879 Tesla can certainly be thanked for improving power distribution.

[@theQiwiMan]

1:16

[@cesarvidelac]

Yeah, perspiration... of your employees. He was a shark, a businessman not very transparent. He ruined Georges Méliès royalties copying his movie "Travel to the Moon" and paying him absolutely nothing. He really invented movie piracy.

[@iteerrex8166]

Nice pose 2:49

[@earth2006]

Hi

[@joyouknow5385]

A few minutes in and literally waiting to see if there is a mere mention of Lewis Latimer carbon filament... I'll update once I have completed this video. Will I be pleasantly surprised or predictably disappointed... I expect the worst & hope for the best... UPDATE: -- I AM PREDICTABLY DISAPPOINTED... Not even an honorable mention.

[@ladykissthevelvet21]

I was looking for this

[@ianblake815]

💡

[@4BillC]

I don't think Edison actually invented anything. I could be wrong, I really don't know but I think he just improved things then took credit for it.

[@thumpyloudfoot864]

2 Canadians invented the incandescent light bulb, separately at the same time....

[@theorganguy]

In our days of thinking "green" and attempts to reduce our carbon-footprint and quite general attempts of trying to reign in "wastefulness" - if only there was a way to globally make it illegal to work/build/sell with planned obsolescence...

[@patriot9455]

Massively important items will always be developed by multiple peole, the "one" who invented it is always one of them.

[@mimetype]

Me, I did.

[@PMW3]

I did, you're welcome

[@melstricker8211]

I am not a fan of Edison. He was only interested in making money. Tesla was a greater inventor than Edison (think AC Current delivery rather than DC, look it up) but was not interested in making money from his inventions, which was not good for Tesla. Having stated this, while inventing something is great it is also less than useless if that invention could not be used in any practical sense. Edison took the idea of the lightbulb and made it a product that people could use and there is the difference. Practicality.

[@DemonEyes23]

Uummmm Simon you've got a whole video debunking the claim that light bulbs are an instance of programmed obsolescence. It wasn't really profit, it was quality control. To make the bulbs last longer you have to run them at a lower output, and to most consumers that made the lights seem less good. Yeah they'd last longer, but we're functionally worse to use. edit: Here's your video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q524emqAqKudkLcsi=Vu-ojszuJmKshCri

[@womble321]

They saw the light

[@JerryHunt92]

That’s crazy. Still not the truth

[@czarcoma]

I guess i will now agree that Musk is the Edison of our age. Like Thomas, Elon was great at marketing himself as the sole genius, of everything he took credit for. Also, goid the thing that AC won DC out for electrical distribution.

[@deividasprunskas6689]

Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light

[@edwardlorden2996]

Thomas Edison was an American business man who leveraged the knowledge and work of others, claiming it as his own. His feud with former employee Nikola Tesla, who was able to invent an electrical distribution system that was cost effective, that showed Edison's true colors. The genius of Tesla's system was it lowered transmission losses through voltage transformation and provided a method of changing the electrical power to mechanical power with more efficient motor design. Telsa claimed to have the entire notional system running in his imagination before approaching George Westinghouse with the idea. Telsa had negotiated what appeared be a genius contract too, which would have paid him a dollar for each horsepower of rating as compensation from Westinghouse. When he was made aware that he would bankrupt Westinghouse with the deal, he voluntarily gave up his earnings. He eventually died New York, a pauper who owed a very large sum a money to his landlord in rent.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

This is a popular narrative, but has very little basis in reality. We've partially covered this in our Tesla video, but we have one on Edison coming up as well. A lot of this narative has been spurred by the supposed feud between Tesla and Edison which never was. Again, go see our Tesla video. :-) We'll have much more on Edison specifically soon. :-) But suffice it to say, Tesla himself greatly admired Edison's work, just thought he was insanely inefficient and lacked technical expertise which would have made his achievements greater and faster. One of Tesla's examples was essentially if there was a needle in a haystack, Edison would meticulously sort threw every straw to find it instead of finding it in more sensible ways. :-)

[@tomekkaminski2677]

Id love to see "tangent simon" take on edison. He was not a nice guy

[@thesuncollective1475]

His bulb lasted for 1 month of continuous use but probably 3 months normal..so you'd need 4 per year?

[@mimetype]

Stop showing off

[@dogwalker666]

A pygmy lamp only has a rating of 100hrs However before led they were in every fridge on the planet.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Certainly is way better than oil lamps and the like. :-) -Daven

[@allyourcode]

Switching on and off causes significant wear. This is because when a light bulb turns on or off, there is a huge temperature change. Think about what happens when you put ice into a bath of room temperature water: it cracks. This is due to rapid warming. That temperature change is very very very small compared to what a light bulb filament goes through. A big part of the reason LEDs last so much longer is that they heat up (and cool down) much less. This also explains why the longest running light bulb has been able to run so long: they never turn it off and on again.

[@dogwalker666]

@@allyourcode It's why zero crossing switches extend lamp life.

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

President Joseph Biden - "Why in God's name don't we teach history in history classes? A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison." - in Kenosha, Wisconsin, September 2020.

[@rvt_h3d]

fjb

[@stevefox3763]

You mention the Scottish author and the British scientists like they were from different places, they were all British...

[@Panzermech]

Edison pushed DC current as Tesla, the Genius he was, saw the inherent superiority if Alternating Current like we use today. Tesla want free electricity for all, Edison wanted to be rich. Like friends Firestone and Ford.

[@amirmousawi9156]

There is no free energy.

[@Chris-hx3om]

Edison didn't actually invent very much. He was more a businessman who bought other people's ideas, then patented them as his own. I think we have laws against that now.

[@blackerpanther3329]

Not a black guy, we know that for sure

[@hashfors]

Umana umana ✊🏻

[@texmj123]

we wuz lightbulb inventors!

[@KamalaChameleon]

Shiii cuz...

[@darrengooding8785]

but but but tiktok said it was a black guy but whitey just stole the idea cause he mean

[@blackerpanther3329]

@@texmj123lol!

[@bobcat9501]

I did you’re welcome

[@tylerharrison7850]

The planned obsolescence comment isn't necessarily 100% correct or true, 1000 our life on the bulb is because the brighter it burns the faster it breaks but the less electricity required to make it Glow so it's cheaper and electricity than it is to get new bulbs.

[@auro1986]

unlike these new led lights whoever invented filament light bulbs knew how to make technology safe for human use

[@Chris-hx3om]

You have that the wrong way around. Filament bulbs require (in civilized countries) 240v to work properly. I don't think there's a person alive who would consider 240v safe (even 110v 'murica! isn't safe). LEDs on the other hand, only requires about 2v. Yes two volts. You're not even going to feel that! The reason they work in 240v sockets is because of the electronics inside. The actual LED element only needs 2v. I think you need to brush up on your electrical knowledge before commenting again.

[@gaeshows1938]

Tommy Eddy?

[@ShukenFlash]

But simon, you already did another video debunking the idea that the Phoebus Cartel set that limit 4 planned obsolescence. If I recall the point was to increase the brightness and usability of light bulbs. Got to start cross-checking facts from your own videos, LOL

[@turtlecoal]

LEWIS LATIMER, he actually wrote the 1 book on it. Period.

[@dangersquirrel4868]

He didn't invent the lightbulb. He invented a better carbon filament.

[@blackerpanther3329]

A filament that was never used commercially

[@mimetype]

He invented a book on it.

[@blackerpanther3329]

@@mimetypelol!

[@lowkeybeams5663]

You should charge sponsors depending on where in the video the advertisement might come out. 🤢

[@occamraiser]

Swan Next question please.