EPISODE #131 “Edison’s String Of Electric Lights!”

From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Length: 01:00

Edison invented the light, but did you know he also came up with the first string of them and hung them outside his lab in New Jersey? We explore this on today’s episode of Did This Happen?! Read the full description.

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Edison invented the light, but did you know he also came up with the first string of them and hung them outside his lab in New Jersey? We explore this on today’s episode of Did This Happen?!

Thomas Edison – Kevin Berntson

Mary Stilwell – Alison Mork

Find out more about the Thomas Edison!

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Edison invented the light, but did you know he also came up with the first string of them and hung them outside his lab in New Jersey? We explore this on today’s episode of Did This Happen?!

Thomas Edison – Kevin Berntson

Mary Stilwell – Alison Mork

Find out more about the Thomas Edison!

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