More than a century after their invention, tungsten filaments—the coiled metal wires at the heart of many incandescent light bulbs—continue to be popular. This is despite the growing market for LED ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

Many credit the invention of the incandescent light bulb with Edison or Swan but its development actually took place over two centuries and by the time Edison and Swan got involved, the tech was down ...

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, under ...

Do you know that the light bulb, a revolutionary invention that transformed daily life, fundamentally works by converting electricity into light through heat? This ingenious device, commonly found in ...

As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there’s a form of carbon that was unknown back ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

Light efficiency developments have been made by a US-based research team in a bid to replace conventional tungsten filament bulbs, which generate more heat than light. A team from Sandia National ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Graphene, a form of carbon famous for being stronger than steel and more conductive than copper, ...