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  2. List of Azerbaijani inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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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]

  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. History of Azerbaijan - Wikipedia

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    [74] [full citation needed] Between the ninth and 10th centuries, Arab authors began calling the region between the Kura and Aras "Arran". [75] [full citation needed] Arabs from Basra and Kufa came to Azerbaijan, seizing abandoned lands. At the beginning of the eighth century, Azerbaijan was the centre of the caliphate–Khazar–Byzantine wars.

  5. Category:Azerbaijani inventions - Wikipedia

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    Azerbaijan portal; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. + Azerbaijani inventors (7 P) Pages in category "Azerbaijani inventions"

  6. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun invented cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO). 1901: First transatlantic radio transmission by Guglielmo Marconi 1901: American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt invented the Fluorescent lamp. 1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming invented the diode. 1906: American inventor Lee de Forest invented the triode. 1908

  7. Edward E. Hammer - Wikipedia

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    Edward E. Hammer (December 27, 1931 – July 16, 2012) [1] was an engineer who was at the forefront of fluorescent lighting research. His technological contributions in incandescent, fluorescent and HID light sources earned him over 35 patents.

  8. Edison light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Most of the bulbs in circulation are reproductions of the wound filament bulbs made popular by Edison Electric Light Company at the turn of the 20th century. They are easily identified by the long and complicated windings of their internal filaments, and by the very warm-yellow glow of the light they produce (many of the bulbs emit light at a ...

  9. 1878 – Thomas Edison, following work on a "multiplex telegraph" system and the phonograph, invents an improved incandescent light bulb. This was not the first electric light bulb but the first commercially practical incandescent light. In 1879 he produces a high-resistance lamp in a very high vacuum; the lamp lasts hundreds of hours. While ...