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1. somethingcurated.com › 2017/08/08 › 9-british9 British Artists & Designers Experimenting With Light

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   Aug 8, 2017 · Haroon Mirza’s works test the interplay and friction between sound and light waves and electric current. He devises kinetic sculptures, performances and immersive installations, such as The National Apavillion of Then and Now (2011) – an anechoic chamber with a circle of light that grows brighter in response to increasing noise.

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3. www.radiomuseum.co.uk › earlyradioThe Story of Radio, Part 1 - Radio Museum

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   The first electric lamps used carbon filaments, and although initially rather bright and efficient, became duller during use due to deposition of carbon onto the inside of the glass bulb. This was one of the reasons why Fleming had been hired by Britain's leading electric lamp Company.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joseph_SwanJoseph Swan - Wikipedia

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   In what are considered to be independent lines of inquiry, Swan's incandescent electric lamp was developed at the same time that Thomas Edison was working on his incandescent lamp, [35] with Swan's first successful lamp and Edison's lamp both patented in 1880.

5. britishheritage.org › en › joseph-swanJoseph Swan - The Lightbulb - British Heritage

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   The incandescent light bulb, which Swan independently developed around the same time as Thomas Alva Edison in the United States, was a transformative innovation. With his bulb, Swan ushered in a new era of electric illumination, replacing the unreliable and hazardous gas lighting of the time.

6. www.bbc.co.uk › ahistoryoftheworld › objectsOne of the First Electric Light Bulbs - BBC

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   The electric light bulb inspired the development of the radio valve and the television tube. Can we imagine what the world would have been like in the 20th and 21st centuries without the light...

7. proaudioencyclopedia.com › the-history-of-audio-and-soundThe History of Audio and Sound Measurement

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   May 31, 2015 · In 1807 Thomas Young (1773-1829) coated a glass cylinder with lamp-black, pushed a pin through a flexible diaphragm, and by shouting into the diaphragm was able to see the sound waves scratched into the lamp-black.

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   Why did Fleming hire a light bulb company?

   • The first electric lamps used carbon filaments, and although initially rather bright and efficient, became duller during use due to deposition of carbon onto the inside of the glass bulb. This was one of the reasons why Fleming had been hired by Britain's leading electric lamp Company.

   The Story of Radio, Part 1 - Radio Museum

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   Who invented the electric lamp?

   • So it was then in the 1870s that Joseph Swan in England and Thomas Alva Edison in the USA turned their minds, independently to making an electric lamp for the masses. Swan may have been first to glimpse the solution in 1878 when he came up with the idea of a vacuum lamp.

   The Story of Radio, Part 1 - Radio Museum

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   Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

   • The incandescent light bulb, which Swan independently developed around the same time as Thomas Alva Edison in the United States, was a transformative innovation. With his bulb, Swan ushered in a new era of electric illumination, replacing the unreliable and hazardous gas lighting of the time.

   Joseph Swan - The Lightbulb | British Heritage

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   Who invented light bulbs?

   • Despite initial issues with the high current required and the relatively short lifespan of the bulbs, Swan's invention found immediate applications. His own house, Underhill, became the world's first home illuminated by light bulbs. The Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan in 1880.

   Joseph Swan - The Lightbulb | British Heritage

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   What was the purpose of lamplighting in ancient London?

   • The light was more to provide distant points of brightness to aim for - in parts of London they were 65 metres apart. The lighting-up time varied due to the season but lamplighters would be seen with small ladders at dusk and dawn lighting or extinguishing the wicks or mantels of the street lamps.

   History of Lighting - The Victorian Emporium

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   Who invented a light arc lamp?

   • At that time "lighting" and "carbon arc lamps" were synonymous but the latter consumed more power and emitted more light than the average home could use. So it was then in the 1870s that Joseph Swan in England and Thomas Alva Edison in the USA turned their minds, independently to making an electric lamp for the masses.

   The Story of Radio, Part 1 - Radio Museum

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9. www.thevictorianemporium.com › history_of_lightingHistory of Lighting - The Victorian Emporium

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   May 30, 2011 · The use of electricity for the purpose of lighting truly began with a British engineer named Frederick Hale Holmes, who in 1846 patented an electric arc lamp and with Michael Faraday pioneered the electrical illumination of lighthouses in the 1850s and 60s.