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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This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on August 27, 2024. Did you ...

So many rival forms of lamps have recently been devised for regulating the electric arc light that even specialists in this branch of applied science have some difficulty in keeping up a knowledge ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Hazeltine Arc Lamp Carbon Shield” in SA Supplements Vol. 30 No. 782supp (December 1890), p. 12495 doi:10.1038 ...

At the time, the drive-in utilized a 35mm projector with a carbon arc lamp. Now obsolete, carbon arc lamps produced light when two carbon rods suspended in air created an electric arc.

While the sunshine lamp was short-lived, artificial sunlight was not and would evolve into tanning booths, as well as other forms of “sun lamps,” some of which emit vitamin D. The old art-deco carbon ...

The “sunshine lamp” was a carbon arc lamp sold by Eveready and made by the National Carbon Co. Inc. in Cleveland Ohio. The lamps were small, could be placed on a stand, and were fashioned to ...

The light bulb's invention is a collaborative effort spanning centuries. From Volta's voltaic pile to Edison's carbon filament, numerous scientists like Swan, Davy, and Lindsay contributed. While ...