Thomas Edison, inventor of the first commercially practical incandescent light, was afraid of the dark! When asked once if he were afraid of anything he replied “I am afraid of the dark.” Thomas Edison died Oct.18, 1931, with all the lights burning in his New Jersey home. In 1840, British Astronomer and Chemist, Warren de la Rue, enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it, thus creating the world’s first light bulb a full 40 years before Edison.

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