Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm ' Signed below in ink

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He was heir to the Barnato Diamond Mining Co

17 shillings and sixpence

The authorities were seriously concerned at the prospect of communist uprisings inspired by the Russian Revolution of two years earlier

carrying a pair of bellows under his arm

Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm ' Signed below in inkEdison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847 1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.