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Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Product:Canvas The first attempt to 'burnEdison'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.