In the Maker Shed: Reinventing Edison – Build Your Own Light Bulb Kit

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August 23rd, 2011November 16th, 2015 10

The Build Your Own Light Bulb Kit, from the Maker Shed, is a fun science kit designed to excite and engage experimenters of all ages. Recreate Edison’s experiments that lead to the development of the first real light bulb. The kit contains everything (except batteries) you need to build your own working light bulb using the included vacuum chamber and a number of different filament materials including carbon and tungsten.

Included in the kit:

Safety Vacuum Chamber

Hand Vacuum Pump

Filament materials including tungsten and carbon

Test Leads

28 page full color instruction manual

10 thoughts on “In the Maker Shed: Reinventing Edison – Build Your Own Light Bulb Kit”

Bennett Michael Harris says:

August 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm

If you like the Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb science kit (proudly hand-made in the USA) then make sure to check out Harris Educational’s fan page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/HarrisEducational) We are much more than just the kits, we post daily articles about science, technology, making, and education. We have 1000’s of photographs relating to STEM (including many from Maker Faire) and regular features like the Identify-It Challenge, STEM Vocabulary Builder, and more.

And don’t forget our Reinventing Morse: Build your own Telegraph kit (with more designs that link invention and history to science and technology on the way).
Bennett Michael Harris says:

August 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm

If you like the Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb science kit (proudly hand-made in the USA) then make sure to check out Harris Educational’s fan page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/HarrisEducational) We are much more than just the kits, we post daily articles about science, technology, making, and education. We have 1000’s of photographs relating to STEM (including many from Maker Faire) and regular features like the Identify-It Challenge, STEM Vocabulary Builder, and more.

And don’t forget our Reinventing Morse: Build your own Telegraph kit (with more designs that link invention and history to science and technology on the way).
Stephen Brown says:

August 23rd, 2011 at 4:03 pm

Wow. Is this the kit that Edison used to recreate/copy Swan’s work?