Over the next 50 years (1810s-1860s), inventors worked to develop arc lamps with electromechanical regulators that maintained the exact gap needed between the carbons to create the bright light.

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In 1809 Sir Humphrey Davy demonstrated before the Royal Society, London, that an arc light could be produced by touching two sticks of carbon connected to a 2000-cell electric battery. It is estimated ...

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Results show that the available power is significantly greater than that from a mercury arc lamp. A new photomixer design, featuring a combined probe and filter structure, impedance matched over the W ...

Manhattan multiple enclosed arc lamps. by Manhattan General Construction Co, Publication date 1902 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics lighting, Division 26, light fixtures. arc lamps Publisher ...

Indoor gas arc lamp. by Litle, T.J. Publication date 1907 Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics gas lighting -- catalogs, Division 10, Division 26, lighting, interior lighting fixtures, lamps and ballasts, ...