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Photo Gallery #2
Lamp Inventors 1880-1940
Lamp inventors in the later 20th century built on the work of those who came before. Some of those earlier inventors are shown below.
An enlargement with additional information is linked to each photo.
Timeline
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1895 |
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1913 |
1936 |
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"If I didn't invent the incandescent lamp,
I never invented anything." -- Thomas Edison, 1892
Thomas Alva Edison © National Park Service |
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"I had the mortification one fine
morning
of finding you on my track and in
several particulars ahead of me
-- but now I think I have
shot ahead of you, . . ." -- Joseph Swan, 1880
Joseph Swan from Tyne & Wear County Council Museums |
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"It's too small, too hot, and too red." -- D. McFarlan Moore
Daniel McFarlan Moore photographed by the light of a Moore Lamp. from the Moore Electrical Company |
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". . . for the economy of operation will much more than compensate for the somewhat unnatural color given to illuminated objects." -- Peter Cooper Hewitt, 1902
Peter Cooper Hewitt. from The Electrical Age |
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"It is bad engineering to assume
that a thing is perfected." -- Willis R. Whitney, 1935
Willis Whitney. from General Electric |
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"I remember this circumstance very well because of the excitement and surprise and incredulity which he manifested at the time. He asked me over
and over again what it was." -- William Coolidge, 1909
William D. Coolidge. from General Electric |
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"It seemed that an investigation, . . .,
might possibly open the way to the
discovery of methods by which the
efficiency could be greatly improved." -- Irving
Langmuir, 1913
Irving Langmuir. from General Electric |
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". . . at one time in development, rival
cathode designs . . . necessitated the
intervention of a neutral physicist." -- Richard Thayer, 1989
George Inman & Richard Thayer © General Electric |
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