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A long wooden-floored laboratory room in New Jersey before dawn in October 1879: a heavy bench under a window black with night, a mercury vacuum pump of glass tubes and a raised reservoir standing beside it, coiled wires, ranks of glass battery cells on the floor beneath, chemical bottles and a wall of small drawers behind. the scorched thread is fixed between the two platinum wires inside the same sealed glass bulb, in a single hairpin bend. heavy wires run from the battery cells under the bench up to the brass binding posts at the base of the lamp stand. the oil lamp stands on the same benchtop about two feet from the bulb. The bulb is about the size of a small pear; the thread inside is thinner than a pin, and it gives out less light than the single oil lamp two feet away. 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