Making light. When electric current is passed through an incandescent light bulb's filament — usually made of tungsten — the filament heats up and glows. Electrons moving through the material ...

A group of international researchers unveiled the world's thinnest light bulb. Remarkably it uses a carbon-based filament, just like Thomas Edison used in 1879 for the first truly commercially ...

A collaboration between mechanical engineers from the US and Korea has resulted in the creation of the world's thinnest light bulb, which is made from wonder material graphene.. While we've seen ...

You probably know that an incandescent light bulb uses a tungsten filament. What’s even cooler is that it’s got 20 inches of double-coiled filament — and tungsten is a brittle mineral that ...

They used a special form of the same material that Thomas Edison used when he invented the incandescent light bulb. Edison used carbon as a filament for his light bulb. The new light source uses ...

Ever since the EU restricted sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs, homeowners have complained about the shortcomings of their energy-efficient replacements. The clinical white beam of ...

Feit Electric's Patented White Filament offers a fresh alternative to traditional yellow LED filament with a sleek minimal aesthetic that easily assimilates into any home décor style. LOS ANGELES ...

Latimer created a light bulb with a more durable filament made of carbon. He sold the patent to the US Electric Co. in 1881, and a year later patented a process for efficiently manufacturing the ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879 Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, the first practical electric incandescent lamp. The ...