Ernest Freeberg

Double feature! Your ticket to this event also gains admission to Chavisa Woods / “The Albino Album” at 7:30 pm.

How Edison’s Light Bulb Changed Invention—and Us

The late 19th century was a period of explosive technological creativity. Arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, which marked the arrival of modernity and became a catalyst for the nation’s transformation. Showing how Edison’s invention was not any single technology, but rather a reinvention of the process itself, Ernest Freeberg (author of The Age of Edison) traces the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it, telling a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility, in which the greater forces of progress and change are manifest in one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.

Town Hall

Downstairs

1119 8th Ave

Seattle, WA 98101

6:00 PM

$5