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So, basic query: how and could the lightbulb have been invented earlier? Bonus points if you can do it really early. I would think that the basic elements to create the first bulb were laying around for quite some time before Edison just happened to get it right. Possible? The Wikipedia list of lightbulb dabblers is pretty long, going all the way back to Sir Davy in 1802.
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