MAKE | In the Maker Shed: Reinventing Edison – Build Your Own Light Bulb Kit

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By Maker Shed
Posted 2011/08/23 @ 8:00 am
Category Education, General

The Build Your Own Light Bulb Kit, from the Maker Shed, is a fun science kit designed to excite and engage experimenters of all ages. Recreate Edison’s experiments that lead to the development of the first real light bulb. The kit contains everything (except batteries) you need to build your own working light bulb using the included vacuum chamber and a number of different filament materials including carbon and tungsten.

Included in the kit:

Safety Vacuum Chamber

Hand Vacuum Pump

Filament materials including tungsten and carbon

Test Leads

28 page full color instruction manual

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5 Responses to In the Maker Shed: Reinventing Edison – Build Your Own Light Bulb Kit

Bennett Michael Harris on August 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm said:

If you like the Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb science kit (proudly hand-made in the USA) then make sure to check out Harris Educational’s fan page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/HarrisEducational) We are much more than just the kits, we post daily articles about science, technology, making, and education. We have 1000′s of photographs relating to STEM (including many from Maker Faire) and regular features like the Identify-It Challenge, STEM Vocabulary Builder, and more.

And don’t forget our Reinventing Morse: Build your own Telegraph kit (with more designs that link invention and history to science and technology on the way).

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Bennett Michael Harris on August 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm said:

If you like the Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb science kit (proudly hand-made in the USA) then make sure to check out Harris Educational’s fan page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/HarrisEducational) We are much more than just the kits, we post daily articles about science, technology, making, and education. We have 1000′s of photographs relating to STEM (including many from Maker Faire) and regular features like the Identify-It Challenge, STEM Vocabulary Builder, and more.

And don’t forget our Reinventing Morse: Build your own Telegraph kit (with more designs that link invention and history to science and technology on the way).

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Stephen Brown on August 23rd, 2011 at 4:03 pm said:

Wow. Is this the kit that Edison used to recreate/copy Swan’s work?

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- David C Dean on August 24th, 2011 at 5:09 am said:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#History_of_the_light_bulb
  
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  Stephen Brown on August 24th, 2011 at 7:55 am said:
  
  I read that article too. Hopefully others will also, so thanks for posting the link.
  
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