When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

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We live in a world where smartphones last for about 2.5 years, and even the best light bulbs fizzle out unexpectedly when you need them the most. That said, here is one bulb defying the odds, a ...

If time-travel were possible and I could pick a moment, I'd choose Menlo Park, New Jersey, for my destination on New Year's Eve in 1879. As a historian of technology, I am fascinated when an inventor ...

Do you know that the light bulb, a revolutionary invention that transformed daily life, fundamentally works by converting electricity into light through heat? This ingenious device, commonly found in ...

Thomas Edison often gets credit for the invention of the light bulb, but a good argument can be made that they were around ...

The light bulb, a defining invention of the late 19th century, will soon be a thing of the past in the European Union. EU Energy Ministers decided in Luxembourg last week to ban incandescent light ...