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31: 1045: 19: 54: 53: 60: 309:, using a primary battery of Grove Cells, then a generator which was better. He gave special parties and illuminated his drawing room and dining room. Source: Practical Electrical Engineering, Newnes. Article entitled "The Development of Electric Lighting". 647:
1994 T5 lamps with cool tip are introduced to become the leading fluorescent lamps with up to 117 lm/W with good color rendering. These and almost all new fluorescent lamps are to be operated on electronic ballasts
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1893 GE introduces first commercial fully enclosed carbon arc lamp. Sealed in glass globes, it lasts 100h and therefore 10 times longer than hitherto carbon arc lamps
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puts forward his ideas on high frequency and wireless electric lighting which included public demonstrations where he lit a
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technology began to be developed tens of thousands of years ago and continues to be refined in the present day.
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1981 Philips sells their first Compact Fluorescent Energy Saving Lamps, with integrated conventional ballast.
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Bernanose, A.; Comte, M.; Vouaux, P. (1953). "A new method of light emission by certain organic compounds".
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1809 Humphry Davy publicly demonstrates first electric lamp over 10,000 lumens, at the Royal Society.
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invents the first practical blue and with additional phosphor, white LED, starting an LED boom.
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1921 Junichi Miura creates the first incandescent lightbulb to utilize a coiled coil filament.
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1972 Herbert Paul Maruska and Jacques Pankove create the first violet light-emitting diode.
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http://txchnologist.com/post/77710091911/in-the-beginning-10-inventors-of-the-incandescent
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Bernanose, A.; Vouaux, P. (1953). "Organic electroluminescence type of emission".
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for LED screw-in lamp equivalent to 60 W incandescent A-lamp for general use.
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Jr. develops the first practical visible-spectrum (red) light-emitting diode.
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for use on bicycles. The invention builds on acetylene lamps from the 1890s.
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answers with the first electronic Energy Saving Lamps to be very successful
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overcomes the disadvantages of the Argand-type lamps with his clockwork fed
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demonstration project, a much more versatile (long-distance transmission)
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Great Barrington Historical Society, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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when using Voltaic piles (battery) for his electrolysis experiments.
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W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, page 132
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1990 Michael Ury, Charles Wood, and several colleagues develop the
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1841 Arc-lighting is used as experimental public lighting in Paris.
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Dr. Thomas Klett, Geschichte der Lichttechnik/History of Lighting
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1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb that lasts 1500 hours.
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invents a fluorescent lightbulb that lasts 60,000 hours using
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could double the luminous efficacy of incandescent lightbulbs.
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17,500 BC oldest documented lamp, utilizing animal fat as fuel
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Great Barrington 1886 - Inspiring an industry toward AC power
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In The Beginning: 10 Inventors of the Incandescent Lightbulb
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based indoor incandescent lighting system introduced by
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was the first industrial factory to be fully lit by gas.
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and probably produced the first gas light in this year.
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1784 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp.
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1802 William Murdoch illuminates the exterior of the
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1953 André Bernanose and several colleagues observe
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Steinmetz invents the 34:The price of lighting through the ages 462:filament for incandescent lightbulbs. 1067:adding citations to reliable sources 1038: 576:1963 Kurt Schmidt invents the first 530:patents the modern fluorescent lamp. 183:1805 Philips and Lee's Cotton Mill, 1015: 498:1917 Burnie Lee Benbow patents the 13: 755:10.1038/scientificamerican0393-108 14: 1172: 1078:"Timeline of lighting technology" 1018:"High pressure sodium vapor lamp" 432:1900 Frederick Baldwin patents a 330:1882 Introduction of large scale 301:1879 (About Christmas time) Col. 1043: 544:1953 Elmer Fridrich invents the 1054:needs additional citations for 1009: 982: 955: 930: 900: 875: 862: 670: 578:high pressure sodium-vapor lamp 426: 357:Great Barrington, Massachusetts 287:patents an electric light bulb. 254:confines the electric arc in a 159: 116: 89:control of fire by early humans 845: 836: 816: 807: 795: 722: 200:1815 Humphry Davy invents the 128:central draught fixed oil lamp 1: 695: 443:creates the first commercial 97: 624:organic light-emitting diode 81: 7: 655:is sold by Fusion Lighting. 622:create the first practical 22:Lighting through the ages ( 10: 1177: 651:1994 The first commercial 209:Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner 140:begins experimenting with 598:ceramic metal-halide lamp 348:invented, revolutionises 320:patent the carbon-thread 411:invents and patents his 305:illuminated his home in 149:Bernard Guillaume Carcel 541:(light-emitting diode). 278:incandescent light bulb 265:demonstrates the first 195:Frederick Albert Winsor 147:1800 French watchmaker 1003:10.1051/jcp/1953500261 976:10.1051/jcp/1953500064 402:electric gas-discharge 87:125,000 BC Widespread 35: 27: 555:in organic materials. 394:Daniel McFarlan Moore 344:c. 1885 Incandescent 324:. 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lighting
control of fire by early humans
oil lamps
candles
Ami Argand
central draught fixed oil lamp
William Murdoch
gas lighting
Bernard Guillaume Carcel
Carcel lamp
Humphry Davy
arc lamp
Soho Foundry
Manchester
Frederick Albert Winsor
miner's safety lamp
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
Döbereiner's lamp
James Bowman Lindsay
light bulb
Dundee
Ignacy Ɓukasiewicz
kerosene lamp
glassblower
Heinrich Geissler
Geissler tube
Edmond Becquerel

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