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  2. Centennial Light - Wikipedia

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    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 technology. [10]

  3. Hakunetsusha - Wikipedia

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    It specialized in the manufacturing of light bulbs. [1] The company was established in 1890, and started out by selling bulbs using bamboo filaments. However, following the opening up of trade with the West through the Unequal treaty, Hakunetsusha met with fierce competition from imports. Its bulb cost about 60 per cent more than the imports ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. What Does a $25 Light Bulb Get You? - AOL

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    Get ready to say goodbye to the incandescent light bulb. If all goes according to plan, the phasing out of Thomas Edison's invention will begin next year and continue through 2014. By that time ...

  6. The Death of the Light Bulb as We Know It - AOL

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    The standard incandescent light bulb as we know it is now a thing of the past. Due to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act signed by President Bush, beginning Jan 1, it is now illegal to ...

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

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    In 1980, the annual operating cost for the average incandescent lamp was $280; for mercury vapor lamps, it was $128; and for low-pressure sodium vapor lamps, it was $60 a year. [1] Meanwhile, high-pressure sodium vapor lamps cost only $44 a year to operate, with a standard life expectancy of 15,000 hours, which also helped to lower labor and ...