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3 days ago · History. Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric.: 91–93 They conclude that Edison's version was the first practical implementation, able to outstrip the others because of a combination of four factors: an effective incandescent material; a vacuum higher than other implementations which was ...
5 days ago · Alfredo Moser's invention, crafted in 2002, consists of a simple yet innovative lamp. This lamp is made by inserting a plastic bottle filled with water into a hole in the roof.
5 days ago · Separate data from National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) – which runs the supply system – shows that in 2010, the last year that Labour was in power, clean energy sources, including...
5 days ago · When that source is included, clean energy accounted for 23.1% of the UK’s electricity generation in 2010, which rose to 61.5% in 2023. Ms Coutinho has on several occasions in the past referred to nuclear as clean energy. In January 2024 she called it “clean, reliable, secure nuclear energy”.
4 days ago · They are manufactured in various configurations, depending on the country and the region in which they are used, with various ratings. This allows connecting more than one electrical consumer item to one single socket and is mainly used for low power devices (TV sets, table lamps, computers, etc.).
3 days ago · Locals in Edinburgh and West Lothian have complained of a 'burning plastic' smell as a fire rages 30 miles away. Fire crews raced to a blaze in Caldercruix at the Greengairs Waste Facility on Meikle Drumgrae Road on Saturday afternoon (June 29).
2 days ago · YD1336 – 1.8 kW, Air-cooled, UHF power triode. YD1342 – 30 MHz, 530 kW, Water-cooled RF power triode. YD1352S (8867, DX334) – 5 MHz, 2 kW, Water-cooled Neotron, a gridless field-effect tube where a magnetically focused electron beam is modulated by varying the voltage of a gate electrode surrounding it.
