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Humphry Davy technically was the inventor of the light bulb, in 1801, but he used platinum as a filament. This meant that it didn't light bright enough for to be useful as a commercial product.


It wasn't until 1880 that Thomas Edison used a longer lasting filament bringing the product into the commercial market.


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Leonardo Da Vinci sketched helicopters, so technically it wasn't an aeroplane... But you also asked who invented the first flying machines, and you don't have to physically build something to have invented it. There were tests to see if Da Vinci's helicopter plans would have been successful, and he was close but not perfect... So … Read more