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Testing Incandescent Lamp at Thomas A. Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory

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Testing Incandescent Lamp at Thomas A. Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory

An illustration of testing the first incandescent lamp in Edison’s lab.

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Testing Incandescent Lamp at Thomas A. Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory

Source: Illustration by Harry K. Flemming, Preparing the First Practical Incandescent Lamp for Testing at Edison’s
Menlo Park Laboratory, October 19, 1879. The Henry Ford, THF230859.

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/158010/#slide=gs-277733
Accessed 2 June 2018

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