After dominating the illumination market for more than a century, it’s easy to think of the glowing filament of the standard incandescent lamp as the only way people found to turn electricity… ...

Latimer created a light bulb with a more durable filament made of carbon. He sold the patent to the US Electric Co. in 1881, and a year later patented a process for efficiently manufacturing the ...

It is very difficult to set fire even to cotton-wool by smashing a lighted fluorescent lamp reposing on it. Nature - Fire Risk from the Smashing of Filament Lamps Skip to main content ...