Who invented the electric light bulb?

... and it wasn't Thomas Edison!

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William Murdoch

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Murdoch didn't invent the electric light bulb - instead he was responsible for the gas

light in the early 1790s.

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He first lit his own house in Redruth, Cornwall in 1792.

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In 1798, he used gas to light

the main building of the Soho Foundry, Birmingham.