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2. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   1813 National Heat and Light Company formed by Frederick Albert Winsor. 1815 Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp. 1823 Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner invents the Döbereiner's lamp. 1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee.

3. Template:Early evolution of the light bulb - Wikipedia

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4. Centennial Light - Wikipedia

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   The pendant light at Fire Station #6 in which the bulb is installed. The Centennial Light was originally a 60-watt bulb, but has since dimmed significantly and is now as bright as a 4-watt bulb. [7] [8] [9] The hand-blown, carbon-filament common light bulb was invented by Adolphe Chaillet, a French engineer who filed a patent for this socket ...

5. Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. History of street lighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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   High-pressure sodium lamps produced a distinct "yellow/orangeish light", [14] brighter than mercury vapor light, which has been described as a "harsh metallic blue" in hue. [15] During the OPEC oil embargo , Mayor Richard J. Daley announced a plan to make Chicago "the first large U.S. city to have sodium vapor lamps on all residential streets ...

7. James Bowman Lindsay - Wikipedia

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   Among his technological innovations, which were not developed until long after his death, are the incandescent light bulb, submarine telegraphy and arc welding. Unfortunately, his claims are not well documented but, in July 1835, Lindsay did demonstrate a constant electric lamp at a public meeting in Dundee , Scotland.