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At this point you're likely familiar with the often-touted upsides to using LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs instead of incandescent (glass with a heat-based filament) ones. LED bulbs are said to last ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

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Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is primarily thanks to his incredible demonstration on a chilly New Year's Eve in ...

How stylish are your light bulbs? More than a century after Thomas Edison created what would become the first practical electric light bulb, versions modeled after it are popping up in trendy ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

The transaction represented a symbolic closing to G.E.’s opening chapters in the second Industrial Revolution. By Michael Levenson More than 140 years after Thomas Edison and his assistants conducted ...

The city of Scranton took its first step toward earning its reputation as the Electric City on Dec. 6, 1880. On that date, electric lights were introduced at the Dickson Locomotive Works. This was ...