Examines the electric bulb, an invention at first ridiculed, distrusted, and feared, which ultimately led to new uses of electricity and transformed society.
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.
