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Ashiqs of Azerbaijan; Jazz-Mugham. Vagif Mustafazadeh (1960). Meykhana – literary and folk rap tradition, consisting of an unaccompanied song performed by one or more people improvising on a particular subject. [3] [4] Mugham – folk musical composition from Azerbaijan. [5]
The invention builds on acetylene lamps from the 1890s. 1901 Peter Cooper Hewitt creates the first commercial mercury-vapor lamp. 1904 Alexander Just and Franjo Hanaman invent the tungsten filament for incandescent lightbulbs. 1910 Georges Claude demonstrates neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show. 1912 Charles P. Steinmetz invents the metal ...
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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.
Alessandro Cruto was an Italian inventor, born in the town of Piossasco, near Turin, who created an early incandescent light bulb.. Son of a construction foreman, he attended the school of architecture at the University of Turin, while also attending Physics and Chemistry lectures with the dream of crystallizing carbon to obtain diamonds. [1]
1890s: He invented a few types of filament lamps with metallic filaments; some say he was the first scientist to use a tungsten filament. He got a patent for lamps with tungsten filaments (US Patent No. 575,002 Illuminant for Incandescent Lamps , Application on 4 January 1893) [ 1 ] and sold it to General Electric (1906), [ citation needed ...
The Azerbaijan SSR supplied much of the Soviet Union's gas and oil during World War II, and was a strategically important region. [191] Although the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union reached the Greater Caucasus in July 1942, the Germans did not invade Azerbaijan. [192]
An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting . Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic , metal, glass, or plastic which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture , which is often called a "lamp" as well.