Interesting to read the line "Then, the final blow broke in 1879. Thomas Edison had invented the electric lightbulb." in a BBC article. Normally, UK sources sid

Interesting to read the line "Then, the final blow broke in 1879. Thomas Edison had invented the electric lightbulb." in a BBC article. Normally, UK sources side with Edison's rival, the English physicist and inventor Joseph Swan as the inventor of the lightbulb.