[DOC] [TLE] Thomas Edison and Menlo Park | Thomas Edison Center [PAR] He soon set up his own laboratory in his room and began performing original .... 
In this same year, Edison coined the name Invention Factory for the Menlo Park 
... By the summer of 1880, Edison had perfected the incandescent bulb enough to 
be ... Edison established the Edison Electric Light Company and began working... [DOC] [TLE] Light Bulb History - Invention of the Light Bulb - The Great Idea Finder [PAR] Jan 30, 2007 ... 1878 Thomas Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company ... lamp 
invention, gas lighting was a mature, well-established industry. ... Many inventors 
had tried to perfect incandescent lamps to "sub-divide" electric light or make it ... 
persistence he had learned years before in his basement laboratory. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Edison - Inventions - HISTORY.com [PAR] In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1,093 patents (
singly ... the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture 
cameras. ... In 1878, Edison focused on inventing a safe, inexpensive electric 
light to ... In 1881, he set up an electric light company in Newark, and the 
following year moved... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Edison Lightbulb | Thomas Edison Muckers [PAR] This is an early sketch from Thomas Edison of his light bulb. ... light bulb research 
began in 1878, filing his first patent later that year ... Continuing to improve his 
design, by November 1879, he filed for a U.S. patent for an electric lamp using... [DOC] [TLE] Who Invented the Light Bulb? - Live Science [PAR] Feb 15, 2014 ... The story of the light bulb begins long before Edison patented the first ... N.J., 
tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. ... Edison 
spent the next year finding the perfect filament for his new bulb, testing more than 
... General Electric, improved the company's method of manufacturing... [DOC] [TLE] THOMAS EDISON'S INVENTIONS [PAR] 1868 Came up with his first patented invention, an Electrical Vote Recorder. ... of 
the Gold & Stock Telegraph Company when their ticker apparatus broke down. ... 
Upon returning, he began to investigate the "electric light problem in earnest. ... 
The lamp itself was perfected on October 21st, 1879, on which day there was put
... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Edison Biography - life, children, story, school, mother ... [PAR] Edison spent short periods of time in school but was mainly tutored by his mother. 
... That year he became a telegraph operator, taught by the father of a child 
whose ... because of deafness, he worked at different places before joining 
Western Union ... Edison and others organized the Edison Electric Light 
Company in 1878. [DOC] [TLE] Early Light Bulbs - Engineering and Technology History Wiki [PAR] Sep 14, 2015 ... Thomas Edison is often said to have invented the light bulb, but his bulb ... 
Edison had begun his work on a system of electrical illumination as early as 1878
. ... wire in 1800, the same year he perfected his voltaic pile or battery. ... Edison, 
in 1878, had already formed the Edison Electric Light Company in... [DOC] [TLE] The Invention Factory - Year of Innovation Series, The Edison Papers [PAR] In the years before the move, Edison's laboratory and shops were in rented 
buildings in ... In late 1875, looking for land on which he could build a laboratory 
to his own ... Menlo Park Laboratory, c.1878, Menlo Park shop, 1st floor c.1878, 
Menlo ... of Western Union investors decided to form the Edison Electric Light 
Company. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Alva Edison facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] In 1862, using his small handpress in a baggage car, he wrote and printed the ... 
for his transmitter, he established a factory in Menlo Park, N.J. Again he pooled ... 
including J. P. Morgan, organized the Edison Electric Light Company in 1878. ... 
first practical incandescent lamp in 1879, and it was patented the following year. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Edison and the Electric Lamp, Patented Jan. 27, 1880 ... [PAR] Jan 26, 2014 ...

Question: He established his electric light company in 1878, a year before he perfected his bulb
Answer: Thomas Edison