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 ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the man behind the electric bulb has been a well-known inventor for more than a century now. It is ...

Benjamin Franklin may be the most famous American inventor, owing to his dual roles as a world famous inventor and also a Founding Father and Statesman, but the most prolific and influential American ...

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 ...

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 ...

The GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., a major manufacturer of electrical appliances and a leader in the development of electrical lighting, has maintained important manufacturing and research-and-development ...

THE closing months of 1906 and the opening months of 1907 are likely to be long remembered by electrical engineers, as a period of a remarkable recrudescence of interest in the subject of incandescent ...