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A burnt out refrigerator light bulb can be incredibly inconvenient, but you can't just replace it with any off-the-shelf bulb ...
The global lamp market, a cornerstone of both residential and commercial lighting solutions, is poised for steady growth over ...
I set out to learn what truly makes LED lighting different from traditional bulbs - and it turns out, it's about more than ...
Opinion
Just Say No to Terrible White LEDs
The culprit is not LED technology per se, but the bafflingly unhelpful way in which LED bulbs are labeled.Walk into a well-stocked hardware store, and you will find two main types of bulbs to choose ...
Instead of heating a filament to the point where light is produced as a by-product, LEDs send electricity through a semiconductor in a way that causes energy to be released as visible photons.
Expert says replacing Sylvana LED light bulbs with incandescent bulbs will boost your health. Does it work? ‘One of the easiest changes you can make…’ ...
Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb. The device is capable of emitting elliptically polarized light, described as "twisted ...
Different lighting technology has its pros and cons. If you're looking for affordability, go with halogen; for brightness, ...
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, they had already been in use for decades by the time he came around. What he did, however, was perfect it!
Note: This article references the 2017 NEC because the Philadelphia area — the jurisdiction where this author teaches and works— is still operating under that version of the Code. One of the most ...
Abstract A NEW incandescent electric lamp with an efficiency of about 0.5 watt per candle-power has just been placed on the market by several of the leading manufacturers in this country.