Erwin Perzy built and repaired surgical instruments for local physicians in Vienna, Austria.In 1900, one of his clients requested a brighter light for his operating room.Just 23 years earlier in 1879, Thomas Edison filed a patent for his carbon-filament lamp and thus began the electric light age.Edison’s electric light was practical for most homes and businesses, but in 1...
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