light bulbs

The true story of a light bulb in a firehouse located in Livermore, California, that has stayed lit for more than one hundred years.

Describes the work of the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, in creating the incandescent light bulb.

Contains photographs and text that explore the invention of the lightbulb, looking at the world before the invention, discussing the life of inventor Thomas Alva Edison and how he came upon the discovery; and considering how the world was changed by the introduction of an inexpensive source of artifical light.