Another Edison light bulb moment

Appropriately enough, the very first lot offered in a sale called Eureka! was one that focused on scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, was an autograph manuscript of seven pages of annotated design drawings by Thomas Edison relating to his work on light bulbs.

Sold for £60,000 at Christie’s (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) these six leaves, extracted from a ru…

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