Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm The Beatles performing at Blackpool

The Beatles performing at Blackpool Night Out

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The authorities were seriously concerned at the prospect of communist uprisings inspired by the Russian Revolution of two years earlier

Tanks were first deployed in World War I by the British in 1916

Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm The Beatles performing at BlackpoolEdison'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.