Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb. He began his experiments in 1878 and by 21 October 1879 he made a working electric light bulb.

托马斯·爱迪生发明了灯泡，他从1878年开始试验，到1879年的10月21日发明了一个可以正常工作的电灯泡。

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Just like that night in Menlo Park when Edison and his team knew their bulb would light but had no idea how long it would stay lit, we were staring at the glimmer of our own light bulb moments.

正如当初在新泽西州的门洛帕克小镇上的那个夜晚，爱迪生和他的团队知道他们发明的灯泡会亮，但不知道它会亮多久，我们正凝视着我们自己的顿悟瞬间。

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Like while they're debating the physics of putting in a light bulb - electricity and ions and, you know, charges - she's already put the light bulb in and gone to bed.

比如果当我们在激烈的讨论上一个电灯泡的物理原理-电流和电子这些东西-的时候，她就已经上好灯泡回去睡觉去了。

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A one-hundred watt light bulb designed for outdoor use can also provide warmth.

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OK. In the length of time it takes for the light to get from that bulb to the table, this machine processes two operations.

好，在灯光从灯泡到,桌子的这段时间内，电脑已经进行了两次运算了。

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A muffin serving size is the size of a light bulb.

一份松饼是灯泡这么大

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Without any intervention from politicians or environmentalists societies that progress have been using m ore fuels that have less carbon with higher energy density (1 kg of wood fuels a light bulb for 1 day, 1 kg of coal fuels a light bulb for 4 days, 1 kg of crude oil for 5 days, 1kg of methane for 6 days and 1 kg of uranium for over 140 years).

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They can happen in the middle of the day, night, or even during a traffic jam, the "aha" or "light bulb" moments in our lives--those thoughts of clear brilliance where the proverbial light bulb appears over our head.

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They complain that even the small hydroelectric plant being built nearby will light only one light bulb per household here.

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