Paul, I have just read the part about the Ediswan Company. The first sentence is not entirely correct, (as far as I was taught). I was under the impression that Charles Swan was the first person to invent a working light bulb, however, two years later, Thomas Edison (Patented), the first? light bulb. Sorry to pin-prick, but this is why people believe, that Edison invented the light bulb, when Swan actually did.