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Edison a fraud?

So I've been reading random history books lately and had some fun at the UNF library and discovered a few things...

Our dead Thomas Alva Edison didn't discover electric light as we all our taught...

Sir Humphry Davy was actually the first to discover it in 1802 making an Arc Lamp (kinda like a Jacob's Ladder from what I got)...but but Jean Foucault improved this to light Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Now I know you might say "but he made the first carbon filament incandescent light bulb" except it was discovered by Sir Joseph William Swan 10 months in Newcastle before Edison 'discovered it.'

Now...I've created my own little theory about this...had I only researched this before I could have done my IB paper on it...

But I do believe that Edison just copied off Swan since Swan didn't get enough recognition for it.
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