Heinrich Gobel


Heinrich Göbel, also Heinrich Goebel and Henry Goebel (born April 20, 1818, December 4, 1883) is a German optician, inventor. He is considered to be the inventor of an electric bulb whose prototype was made in 1854, more than two decades before Edison. Curriculum vitae Heinrich Göbel was born in 1818 in Springe near Hanover. In 1849 he emigrated to New York. Göbel is considered to be the inventor of a coal filament lamp (1854), similar to a light bulb developed in 1880 by Thomas Edison. Although he himself made some claims to the invention in 1882, he did so only to promote his own company. His name came back in 1893 with the three companies that produced the Edison light bulbs without a license from the inventor. Representatives of these companies defended their clients by trying to use Göbel's story, as Edison's proof of theft of the inventions would invalidate his claim against these three companies. Although Edison's claim was dismissed, it did not confirm Göbel's claims, but in Germany he was considered the inventor of the light bulb. Authoritative control (person):

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