Thomas Edison made thousands of wrong attempts before he was able to create a working light bulb.

托马斯·爱迪生在发明灯泡之前，做了成千上万的尝试。

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On June 18, the oldest-known working light bulb in the world will celebrate the 110th year it has burned bright.

六月十八号，世界上已知工作时间最长的电灯泡将庆祝点燃110年。

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Sir Joseph Swan of Newcastle announced that he had made a working light bulb on 18 December 1878 and on 18 January 1879 he gave a public demonstration in Sunderland –10 months before Edison.

英国纽卡斯尔的约瑟夫-斯旺爵士说，他在1878年的12月18日就已经发明了一个可以使用的电灯泡了，并且在1879年的1月18日拿到英国桑德兰市做过公开展出，足足比爱迪生早了10个月。

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Therefore, middle managers could not resist spending all the money that they were saving through the outsourcing on adding additional quality in their product designs and, most of all, a lot of extra detail: a working light on every table in the restaurant carriage, windscreen wipers on the locomotive, a bit of dirt painted on the bottom of the carriages, etc.

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