In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

Fronted by a luxurious mustache, this loyal lieutenant to Thomas Edison was the embodiment ... charging crowds to drum up excitement. When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Here are some illuminating facts about the parade, its long history and its namesake, inventor Thomas Edison ... in 1953 to honor Edison's invention of the commercial light bulb.