Jewish Invention Myths: The Incandescent Lamp/Incandescent Light Bulb
According to the jews they also invented what they refer to as the ‘Incandescent Lamp’ – which actually refers to the Incandescent Light Bulb – that is simply a large tungsten filament light bulb. (1)
They specifically named Irving Langmuir as the ‘jewish inventor’ of said ‘Incandescent Lamp’, (2) which is a good start since Langmuir was both jewish and did invent a sort of lamp but the ‘jewish invention’ claim is simply not true.
What is the truth?
Well in the first instance the basis behind incandescent lamps – and light bulbs in general – is the research of English scientist Ebenezer Kinnersley in 1761 in Philadelphia when he demonstrated how heating a wire results in incandescence and light being generated, (3) which was built upon by British chemist Humphrey Davy; who attached a wire to an early battery and showed how light might be generated using electricity in 1802. (4)
After some further innovation in 1841 English inventor Frederick de Moleyns successfully patented the first incandescent lamp with a carbon and platinum filament and filled with a vacuum. (5)
However, the first truly successful person to create incandescent light bulbs was Charles Swan – a British physicist and chemist – in 1878 which he successfully patented in 1880. (6) Indeed, the first street in the world – Mosley Street in the British city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – to be lit by incandescent lamps was done using Swan’s invention on 3rd February 1879. (7)
Also, in 1878 Thomas Edison – the famous American inventor – began work on a ‘practical incandescent lamp’ and patented the result of his work on 14th October 1878 in the United States. (8)
Clearly then Irving Langmuir didn’t invent the incandescent lamp or the incandescent light bulb: so, what did he invent?
He discovered that filling a lamp with inert gas – such as argon and nitrogen - instead of a vacuum resulted in twice the luminous efficacy and reduced bulb blackening which -while a noteworthy discovery and worthy of praise – is not ‘inventing the incandescent lamp’ or ‘the incandescent light bulb’ as other jews claim.
So no jews didn’t’ invent the incandescent lamp or the incandescent light bulb!
References
(1) https://boulderjewishnews.org/2009/an-informal-list-of-jewish-inventions-innovations-and-radical-ideas/ also https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/when-is-a-jew-not-a-jew/
(2) https://christianislamicforum.wordpress.com/dedicated-to-our-jewish-brethren/
(3) Barrie Charles Blake-Coleman, 1992, ‘Copper Wire and Electrical Conductors: The Shaping of a Technology’, 1st Edition, Harwood Academic Publishers: Chur, p. 127
(4) https://web.archive.org/web/20150915222640/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_14/March_1879/The_Electric_Light
(5) Robert Friedel, Paul Israel, 2010, ‘Edison’s Electric Light: The Art of Invention’, 2nd Edition, John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, p. 7
(6) K. Swan, 1946, ‘Sir Joseph Swan and the Invention of the Incandescent Electric Lamp’, 1st Edition, Longmans, Green and Co.: London, pp. 21-25
(7) https://web.archive.org/web/20140606212620/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/exhibitions/current-and-past-exhibitions/very_truly_yours/science/swan/electric_light/
(8) https://patents.google.com/patent/US214636
(9) Patrick Coffey, 2008, ‘Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry’, 1st Edition, Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 134–146.