An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb with a vacuum or inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation.

Who invented the lightbulb and win?

As every third-grader knows, Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb. Or did he? It's painful to cast aspersions on the reputation of one of America's heroes, but Edison, who patented his bulb in 1879, merely improved on a design that British inventor Joseph Swan had patented 10 years earlier.

Who invented light bulb in 1854?

1854 - Heinrich Göbel, a German watchmaker, invented the first true lightbulb. He used a carbonized bamboo filament placed inside a glass bulb.