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This Inventor Lit Up the World

A Dale Josey Season 1 Episode 4

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Who invented the incandescent light bulb in 1879?  Well, it's not whom you think it is!  This prolific American inventor was successfully sued for patent infringement.   However, after researching 8,000 possible combinations using electrical power to produce light his famous quote “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration" still holds true today.