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  2. Humphry Davy - Wikipedia

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    Davy was a pioneer in the field of electrolysis using the voltaic pile to split common compounds and thus prepare many new elements. He went on to electrolyse molten salts and discovered several new metals, including sodium and potassium, highly reactive elements known as the alkali metals.

  3. Tealight - Wikipedia

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    A tealight (also tea-light, tea light, tea candle, or informally tea lite, t-lite or t-candle) is a candle in a thin metal or plastic cup so that the candle can liquefy completely while lit. They are typically small, circular, usually wider than their height, [1] and inexpensive. Tealights derive their name from their use in teapot warmers, but ...

  4. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    19th century. 1800–1809 Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp when using Voltaic piles (battery) for his electrolysis experiments. 1802 William Murdoch illuminates the exterior of the Soho Foundry with gas. 1805 Philips and Lee's Cotton Mill, Manchester was the first industrial factory to be fully lit by gas. 1809 Humphry Davy publicly ...

  5. Qulliq - Wikipedia

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    A qulliq being lit, Nunavut, 1999. The qulliq[1] or kudlik[2] (Inuktitut: ᖁᓪᓕᖅ, romanized: qulliq, IPA: [qulːiq]; Greenlandic: qulleq; Inupiaq: naniq), is the traditional oil lamp used by many circumpolar peoples, including the Inuit, the Chukchi [3] and the Yupik peoples. [4] The fuel is seal -oil or blubber, and the lamp is made of ...

  6. Safety lamp - Wikipedia

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    The light given out by these lamps was poor (particularly Davy's, obscured by the gauze); early lamps gave less light than candles. [23] This was not resolved until the introduction of electric lighting around 1900, and the introduction of battery-powered helmet lamps in 1930.

  7. Fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric current in the gas excites mercury vapor, which produces short-wave ultraviolet light that then causes a phosphor coating on the inside of the lamp to glow.

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