Why was the light bulb invented?
Hello Morgan, You ask a very good question. Many Inventions were invented by accident, or while trying to invent something else. The light bulb was not one of these. Many scientists of the day were trying to invent a way to use electricity to light your house. The reason is that the old style of lighting, candles, lamps, lanterns, were all very dangerous. Many fires back then were stated by these. And they put out smoke into the room and burned up the oxygen, making it harder to breath. People were starting at that time to run natural gas through cities then, as a new safer way to light homes, and the gas companies were raking in the profit. As soon as scientists started working with electricity, they thought about using it for lighting. It is logical, because they saw electricity create sparks. Edison decided that he was going to make a light bulb. He already had a whole factory full of inventors and a bunch of money from other inventions, so he put all his men to work trying to syste
