The Antique Series of lamps features a carbon filament with simulated oil-rubbed glass The Antique Series of lamps features a carbon filament with simulated oil-rubbe d glass to produce a classic, old ...

Hackers have loved LEDs from day one, back when they gave us little more than a dim spot of colored light in the darkness. These days, they’re big, bright, and beautiful, and can be used to create ...

Some projects end up being more objet d’art than objet d’utile, and we’re fine with that — hacks can be beautiful too. Some hacks manage both, though, like this study in silicon and gallium under ...

Before we describe how it’s done, note that we recommend that the result be checked as having sufficient brightness for a stop & tail-light application. That’s because the light output may be ...

Philips Hue on Wednesday introduced over a dozen new lighting products -- and announced a partnership with streaming music service Spotify to sync your Philips Hue lights with the beat, as well as the ...

Yes, incandescent lamps are still with us. A lamp's service life can be extremely brief or it can extend for many hours, days, months, years, or even decades. Theatrical lamps for example are run at ...

Incandescent bulbs were supposed to fade quietly into history, replaced by efficient LEDs and smart lighting systems. Instead ...

IN a paper read to the Royal Society of Arts on March 7, Mr. J. W. Hyde of the G.E.C. Research Laboratories, Wembley, gave a full account of the working of the new electric discharge lamps. The sodium ...

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 ...

Welsbach osmium filament lamp, ca. 1905. First successful metal filament lamp. Characteristics: Brass(?) medium-screw base with porcelain-dome insulator. Two single-arch osmium filaments in series ...