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.

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Timeline   1879 1895 1901 1904 1910 1913 1936		"If I didn't invent the incandescent lamp, I never invented anything." -- Thomas Edison, 1892 Thomas Alva Edison © National Park Service
		"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
		"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
		". . . 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
		"It is bad engineering to assume that a thing is perfected." -- Willis R. Whitney, 1935 Willis Whitney. from General Electric
		"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
		"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
		". . . at one time in development, rival cathode designs . . . necessitated the intervention of a neutral physicist." -- Richard Thayer, 1989 George Inman & Richard Thayer © General Electric