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When did Moses Gerrish Farmer produce electric lamps?

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Twenty years before Edison's success he produced (1858-59) electric lamps, and in 1868, with a dynamo of his own invention, he illuminated a house in Cambridge, Mass., but was never able to perfect a marketable light.

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