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  2. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    In 1872, Russian Alexander Lodygin invented an incandescent light bulb and obtained a Russian patent in 1874. He used as a burner two carbon rods of diminished section in a glass receiver, hermetically sealed, and filled with nitrogen, electrically arranged so that the current could be passed to the second carbon when the first had been ...

  3. 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.

  4. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    c. 1885 Incandescent gas mantle invented, revolutionises gas lighting. 1886 Great Barrington, Massachusetts demonstration project, a much more versatile (long-distance transmission) transformer based alternating current based indoor incandescent lighting system introduced by William Stanley, Jr. working for George Westinghouse. [6]

  5. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    The first was released in 1929 at Menlo Park, NJ, two years before his death; a 2-cent red, on the 50th anniversary of his invention of the incandescent light, and again in 1947, 3-cent violet, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, first released in Milan, Ohio, his place of birth. [168] [169]

  6. Henry Woodward (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Woodward was a Canadian inventor and a major pioneer in the development of the incandescent lamp. [1] He was born in 1832. 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]

  7. EDITORIAL: Light went out on incandescent bulbs with little ...

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    It was more than 140 years ago — 1879 — that Thomas Edison dramatically advanced the economy, efficiency, safety and the well being of humans by inventing the incandescent light bulb. No ...

  8. Heinrich Göbel - Wikipedia

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    After Göbel's death the legend arose in some countries [which?] that he was the true inventor of the practical incandescent light bulb. Göbel acquired patents for an improvement of sewing machines in 1865, for an improvement of the Geissler pump in 1882, and for a technique to connect carbon threads to metal wires in incandescent lamps in 1882.

  9. Incandescent Lightbulb Regulations: What's True, What's Not - AOL

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    New federal regulations regarding the sale of incandescent lightbulbs are a little confusing. ... As of Jan. 1, 2012, any bulb that can generate the amount of light produced by a conventional 100 ...