Tara Isabella Burton

Tara Isabella Burton

 

Tara Isabella Burton is a contributing editor at American Purpose, a columnist at Religion News Service and the former staff religion reporter at Vox. She has written on religion and secularism for National Geographic, the Washington Post, the New York Times and more, and she holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford.

Thomas Edison told journalists they would each receive a brief, private demonstration of the new light bulb’s capacities. They could marvel at what he had achieved before he swiftly ushered them away, ensuring they’d be out of the room long before the bulb burned out.

How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press Into Believing He'd Invented the Light Bulb

A year before he developed a working bulb, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time

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