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unusual facts about light bulb



FEL lamp

The FEL lamp (less accurately called a light bulb) is an ANSI standard 1000 watt quartz halogen lamp with a G9.5 medium 2-pin base used in many stage and studio lights that costs around $12 and is available from a number of manufacturers including GE, Osram, Ushio, Eiko, and Philips.

Marcello Pirani

In 1904, he joins the light bulb factory (GlĂĽhlampenwerk) of Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin where he remained for the next fifteen years.


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65th Grey Cup

"By game day, a bunch of guys settled on using steel cleats. Before the warm-up, I noticed a guy from Bell Canada walking by with a staple gun. A light bulb went on. 'I've tried everything, but not that.' So I tried putting staples in my shoes. I stapled an 'X' on about six bumps. Gordon Judges and Chuck Zapiec put some in, too. We looked at each other and said, 'That's it.'"

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb

Franjo Hanaman, inventor of contemporary classic light bulb with tungsten-tantalum alloy

Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Dutch illusionist Hans Klok and Darren Romeo perform the famous "Blackstone Floating Light Bulb" illusion under a licensing agreement with Blackstone Magik Enterprises Inc.

Leopold Koppel

In February 1920, DGA merged its light bulb manufacturing with that of Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and Siemens & Halske and they became limited partners under OSRAM G.m.b.H. KG; the start of the business year was dated retroactively to 1 July 1919.

LIFX

The master light bulb connects to the router via 802.11n and then to all the other LIFX bulbs in the house via an IPV6 802.15.4 mesh network.

Linthouse

The Luma Tower is a famous landmark in the area; originally an Art Deco light bulb factory - it was restored and converted to private housing in the mid-1990s.

Longest-lasting light bulbs

The fifth longest-lasting light bulb was in a washroom at the Martin & Newby Electrical Shop in Ipswich, England.

The bulb has been noted by The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and General Electric as being the world's longest-lasting light bulb.

Pallophotophone

Among the material on the surviving reels is the earliest known recording of the NBC chimes, a broadcast of a high school basketball match (believed to be the world's second-oldest recording of a sports broadcast) and a historic 1929 recording of the 82-year-old Thomas Edison, with Henry Ford and President Herbert Hoover, speaking on a broadcast commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb.

Rachel Goodrich

Goodrich's song, "Light Bulb", was featured in an episode of the TV series Weeds, and the song also features in a Crayola commercial advertisement.

South Beach Tow

According to cast member Christie Ashenoff, the idea for the program came after Tremont towed the car of Simon Fields: "He tells us that a few days later a light bulb went off in his head that if he lost his mind, that everyone else must too".

Wesson, Mississippi

One year after Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb the Mississippi Mills put them to use.