How many times have Thomas Edison tried making the light bulb, before he actually achieved it?

Question

How many times have Thomas Edison tried making the light bulb, before he actually achieved it?

Answer 1

good answer you got first

but he did try too many times

evidently he tried as many as 2000 different materials to make the light bulb including magnisium, and dif types of strands

Answer 2

Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.