The Electric Light (1835)

We're working on a full feature about The Electric Light (1835). In the meantime, here's what we know: On 25 July 1835 in Dundee, self-educated weaver's son James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a documented 'constant electric light' — 44 years before Edison and Swan. He never patented or developed it, but his early experiment, his 1854 through-water telegraphy across the Tay and his 50-language Pentecontaglossal Dictionary make him one of Scotland's most underrated polymaths. It was developed in 1835 by James Bowman Lindsay.