An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually...

lighting. Incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than other types of electric lighting. Less than 5% of the energy they consume is converted into visible...

space and street lighting, followed by incandescent light bulb-based utilities for indoor and outdoor lighting. Over time, electric lighting became ubiquitous...

gas lighting led to the rapid adoption of electric lighting. By 1881, the Savoy Theatre in London was using incandescent lighting. While electric lighting...

a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee. 1841 Arc-lighting is used as experimental public lighting in Paris. 1853 Ignacy...

a system that could bring electric lighting directly into a customer's business or home, a niche not served by arc lighting systems. After devising a...

recognized engineering roadblock to electric power distribution, with many less-than-satisfactory solutions tested by lighting companies. But the mid-1880s saw...

lit by electric lighting. The first city in the United States to successfully demonstrate electric lighting was Cleveland, Ohio, with 12 electric lights...

within the line of sight. Electric lighting energy use can be adjusted by automatically dimming and/or switching electric lights in response to the level...

Immelt's replacement in 2017, further divested General Electric's assets in locomotives and lighting, in order to focus the company more on aviation. After...

estimated 1% of all houses were without a flush toilet, 1% without electric lighting, 37% without a fixed bath or shower and 7% without piped water. In...

tourist guide for the caves when the caves were opened to the public. Electric lighting was added in 1884, preceding even Ljubljana, the capital of Carniola...

included displays of his inventions, and the city was lit with his electric lighting. Joseph Wilson Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Pallion, in...

both daylight and electric light or both, to serve human needs. Lighting design is based in both science and the visual arts. The basic aim of lighting within the...

Edison's work on lighting in the 19th century. In 1911, General Electric was found to have acquired three quarters of the National Electric Light Association...

The Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant (TMLP) established in 1897, is a municipal electric utility within the city of Taunton, Massachusetts. Prior to 1897...

burgeoning demand for electric lighting was to make GEC's fortune. In 1900, GEC was incorporated as a public limited company, The General Electric Company (1900)...

Connecticut, and was hired as assistant manager and draftsman for the U.S. Electric Lighting Company, a company owned by Hiram Maxim, a rival of Thomas Edison...

The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It was...

Resistive heating loads such as electric boilers or space heating may be connected to three-phase systems. Electric lighting may also be similarly connected...

boy electric and best boy grip. They are assistants to their department heads, the gaffer (in charge of electricals) and the key grip (lighting and rigging)...

Calcutta electric lighting license as agents of The Indian Electric Company Limited. The company soon changed its name to the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation...

formation. In the late 19th century, electric arc lighting was in wide use for public lighting. Some low-pressure electric arcs are used in many applications...

for Dynamo-Electric Machines (1885) U.S. patent 0,328,573 – System of Electric Lighting U.S. patent 0,328,574 – System of Electric Lighting U.S. patent...

waste heat than as visible light. Global electric lighting in 1997 consumed 2016 terawatthours of energy. Lighting consumes roughly 12% of electrical energy...

increased number of stars visible at night, reducing the effects of electric lighting on the environment, improving the well-being, health and safety of...

between director and camera operator emerged. With the advent of artificial lighting and faster (more light-sensitive) film stocks, in addition to technological...

power manufacturing machinery and propel subways and railway trains. Electric lighting is the most important form of artificial light. Electrical energy...

experimenting with electric lighting, electric generators and electric motors, and eventually forming the Van Depoele Electric Manufacturing Company...

254780, Scribner, Edward A., "Electric incandescent lamp", published 1882-03-07, assigned to United States Electric Lighting Co.  Furfari, F.A. (2001). "A...