Thomas Edison is often credited with the invention of the light bulb.

Yet nothing could be further from the truth.

If there's any modern invention that really can't be attributed to a single person,

it would be the incandescent light bulb.

Learn more about the history behind the incandescent bulb,

perhaps the most significant invention of the 19th century,

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Miriam Webster defines incandescence as the emission by a hot body of radiation that makes it visible.

In that sense, incandescens has been around since we invented fire.

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