History fun facts October 21st
HISTORICAL FUN FACTS for OCTOBER 21st On This Day in 1879, Thomas Edison invented the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb. The incandescent light bulb is an electric light with a filament heated to a high temperature by passing an electric current through it. This results in visible light. Did You Know: Thomas Edison had a thing for experimenting on trains. When Edison was 12-years-old, started to lose his hearing. He didn't go completely deaf, but he wasn't far off. He did say, he preferred not being able to hear, as it made it easier to concentrate on his experiments. But it was one of his experiments when he was 12 that resulted in his hearing problems. Legend has it, Edison was smacked in his ears by a train conductor after he started a fire in a boxcar after one of his experiments went wrong. Edison saved a young boy from a being killed by a runaway train. Edison was 14-years-old at th...