50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

THOMAS EDISON INVENTED THE LIGHTBULB

Children learn early on that Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb is one of the most important inventions in U.S. history. That’s half true — a brilliant marketer, Edison successfully sold himself as the lone genius inventor, but the lightbulb actually came from a group effort by scientists who were sometimes collaborating, sometimes competing to bring light to the world.

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