Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. UK company Bare Conductive has launched a light kit on Kickstarter that lets you turn any piece of paper into a ...

Annotated designs drawn by inventor Thomas Edison to improve his first ever electric lightbulb have emerged for sale for £90,000. The scientist, who is often credited with perfecting the carbon ...

Electric lights were first marketed to the public about 1880. It is said that Louis Comfort Tiffany's famous lily lamp with glass shades for light bulbs was the first lamp with a shade that projected ...

Market for traditional clay diyas is wearing a gloomy look ahead of Diwali as more people are opting for cheap electric lamps at a time when inflation is biting hard. Market for traditional clay diyas ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This electric cap lamp was made by ...

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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently welcomed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Final Rule that defines the scope of general service lamps to be consistent with the ...

I used to buy floor lamps at CostCo or Home Depot that were relatively cheap but seemed to last me about one year on the average. They also were decidedly pedestrian in design. After getting rid of ...

The year was 1878, and Thomas Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company to invent a commercially viable incandescent electric lamp. The following year, at the Menlo Park Laboratory in New ...