1879 U.S. Morgan Silver Dollar w/ Thomas Edison Stamp

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U.S. Silver Dollar Collection 1879 Morgan Silver Dollar.. with a 3 cent stamp honoring Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric light, was issued February 11, 1947. The panel is postmarked December 31, the anniversary of the first public demonstration of his electric light..In October 1879, Thomas Edison placed a filament of carbonized thread in a bulb, drew out the air, and turned on the electric current. The bulb shed a good light and continued to burn for almost 2 days.The inventor and his associates continued to perfect the light over succeeding weeks. The story of their success was published in a full page story in the New York Herald, under the bold headline "The Great Inventor's Triumph in Electric Illumination." On night, a system was tested that lighted Edison's laboratory, the railroad station, and the half dozen houses in Edison's home of Menlo Park, New Jersy. New lamps were added each night in anticipation of the first "public exhibition" on New Years Eve.On December 31, railroad stations in Newark, Jersey City, Trenton and Philadelphia were jammed. The Pennsylvania Railroad added extra trains to accommodate more than 3,000 people. What they witnessed, wrote the magazine was " A New Light to the World."The Historic U.S. stamp featured on this panel honors Thomas Edison as one of America's foremost inventors. The Panel read more

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