Today in 1954, a 75,000-watts light bulb, 3½-ft high and about 2-ft in diameter, was lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the invention of the first light bulb in January 1879.
The inventor, Thomas Edison, was born today in 1847, created the world’s first industrial research laboratory, and held a world record of 1,093 patents. Britannica: “Edison was the quintessential American inventor in the era of Yankee ingenuity.”