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Who was credited for inventing the electric lightbulb?

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Retry Correct Incorrect After Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, had completed the tin foil phonograph in 1878, his sights were set on perfecting electric lighting for practical use in the American home. And as the National Park Service explained, he would see that dream realized when the whole Menlo Park complex shined with incandescent light in December of 1879.
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Who was credited for inventing the electric lightbulb?

  • Guglielmo Marconi
  • Thomas Edison
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Alexander Graham Bell
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