Light bulb Inventors

Hopefully, if you were a good student and did a project on who invented a certain thing; you would've read somewhere that Thomas Edison was the inventor of the lightbulb. That information you looked up is false. Edison was not the creator of the light bulb. In truth, others tried to develop the lightbulb. He's far from being the "Inventor" of it. 

Before Edison, there were other inventors in the mix of the creation of the light bulb. First, there was Allesandro Volta, he contributed by giving the idea of creating light through electricity. However, the true inventor of the light bulb was Humphry Davy. He was the inventor of the first practical lamp which had the light bulb at the top of if it. He used voltaic piles(which was the first battery) to charcoal electrodes to give it charge. Sadly, it didn't sell well. Next, there was Joseph Swan & Warren De La Rue, instead, they both used a filament. Warren used a Platinum filament and Joseph used a carbonized filament both of those failed too. The credit of the invention of the light bulb had to be Humphry Davy.

One may argue that Edison did invent it because it was the only one that actually sold commercially and worked well enough. On the contrary, Humphry's version did work it just wasn't practical enough for homes and ran out of juice to quickly. Edison even slightly changed Swanson's creation by using a thinner filament. You could say that Warren, Swanson, and Edison innovated it though. They all innovated Davy's version of the Lightbulb by adding a figment to the lightbulb, but u could not say that Edison invented it.

To sum up, Edison was not the inventor of the lightbulb. Edison was the first to make the lightbulb a commercial success which is an achievement itself. To say he invented is stretching the truth which discredits all the other scientists that came before him with the invention of the lightbulb.