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Article: Light's Golden Jubilee.(Thomas Alva Edison honored for his incandescent light bulb inventions)
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- December 1, 2005
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The world prepared to celebrate in high style in 1929. Fifty years earlier, Thomas Alva Edison had invented the incandescent light bulb and a system to power it. It was an invention that had changed the face of civilization.
Many special events were organized to honor this 50th anniversary and the man responsible for it. At the center of attention was Light's Golden Jubilee, an extravaganza hosted by Edison friend and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford at Ford's newly completed museum, the Edison Institute of Technology (known today as The Henry Ford) in Dearborn, Michigan.
October 21, 1929, began in dramatic fashion. A replica of an 1860 steam train, ...