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  2. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    1875 Henry Woodward patents an electric light bulb. 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle , the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris. 1879 (About Christmas time) Col. R. E. Crompton illuminated his home in Porchester Gardens , using a primary battery of Grove Cells, then a generator which was better.

  3. Edison light bulb - Wikipedia

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    In the 1980s, after watching a salvage operation, Bob Rosenzweig started the reproduction and selling of his faux-antique bulbs. [9] These vintage-style light bulb reproductions were sold mostly to collectors and prop houses, and continued until the turn of the 21st century when new regulations banned low-efficiency lighting in many countries.

  4. Henry Woodward (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotel keeper, filed a Canadian patent application on an electric light bulb. [2] [3] It was granted on August 3, 1874, as Canadian patent number 3,738. [4] Woodward was a medical student at the time. Their light bulb comprised a glass tube with a large piece of carbon connected to two ...

  5. How the 173-year-old glassmaker behind Edison’s light bulb ...

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    A photo of the original purchase order from Thomas Edison to Corning for the glass encasement for Edison’s lightbulb in 1880. CEO Wendell Weeks keeps the purchase order framed in his office as a ...

  6. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Available in numerous spot and flood beam spreads. Like all light bulbs, the number represents the diameter of the bulb in 1 ⁄ 8 of an inch. Therefore, a PAR 16 is 51 mm (2 in) in diameter, a PAR 20 is 64 mm (2.5 in) in diameter, PAR 30 is 95 mm (3.75 in) and a PAR 38 is 121 mm (4.75 in) in diameter. A package of four 60-watt light bulbs

  7. Joseph Swan - Wikipedia

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    Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.

  8. Electric light - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. Device for producing light from electricity For other uses, see Electric light (disambiguation). "Electric lamp" and "Light bulb" redirect here. For the furniture, see light fixture. For the album, see Lightbulbs (album). For the film originally titled "Lightbulb", see Ingenious (2009 ...

  9. 5 ways people stayed cool before air conditioning was invented

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    Water fountains were very different in the 1800s and early 1900s than they are now, but they still provided an easy way to cool off in the summer. Some fountains in big cities were bui