Annotated designs drawn by inventor Thomas Edison to improve his first ever electric lightbulb have emerged for sale for £90,000. The scientist, who is often credited with perfecting the carbon ...

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The year was 1878, and Thomas Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company to invent a commercially viable incandescent electric lamp. The following year, at the Menlo Park Laboratory in New ...

Benjamin Franklin may be the most famous American inventor, owing to his dual roles as a world famous inventor and also a Founding Father and Statesman, but the most prolific and influential American ...

IN an article which appeared in NATURE last June the present writer reviewed briefly some of the improvements which had been made and promised in incandescent electric lamps. At the time that article ...

AT the tenth annual conference at Margate of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers, a paper was read on September 5 by Mr. G. H. Wilson on electric discharge lamps and their applications to ...

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I used to buy floor lamps at CostCo or Home Depot that were relatively cheap but seemed to last me about one year on the average. They also were decidedly pedestrian in design. After getting rid of ...