If anyone had the nerve, the light bulbs that were made by Thomas Edison more than 116 years ago ago could be taken from their scruffy box, screwed into a modern light fitting and switched on, but to historians the experiment would be as blasphemous as using the Holy Grail as a shaving bowl.
The wooden box of samples, assembled for a court case in 1890 which upheld Edison’s patent, contains unique surviving examples of early bulbs by Edison and his contemporaries, believed long since lost or destroyed. It was found in the attic of a private house in America three years ago, and will go on public display for the first time tomorrow at Christie’s London auction house.
The box and its extraordinary contents, in perfect condition except the two bulbs broken in court so their construction could be examined, will be sold on Wednesday when they are expected to fetch up to £300,000.
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