You are on page 1of 7

Light Bulb

FABIN RICARDO MORENO BUSTOS


064121064

What is a Light Bulb?

Is an artefact that produce light with the heating of a wolfram wire


specifically , this heating produce a light red-white through of the
electrical current that produce an effect called Joule Effect today
those lights bulbs are few efficient because the 85% is heat and the 15%
is light. In Europe and other parts around the world in 2009 establishing
a deadline for member states to stop the manufacture and market
incandescent lamps. So today is common to see other types as LED or
compact fluorescent lamp. According with the magazine Life , is one of
the most important invents that produce enormous consequences in the
century XIX and XX.

History.

Who invented the incandescent lamp?, historians Robert Friedel and


Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan
and Thomas Edison. They conclude that Edison's version was able to
outstrip the others because of a combination of two factors: an effective
incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to
achieve.

We can say then, that the bulb was invented by Thomas Alba Edison
despite that in different parts of the world was created other versions and
was patented other types , Edison has the credit for the three factors that
we can read before and because he patented a trade version no as his
colleagues that patented a laboratory version.

Some Properties, Evolution Of It And


History Consequences.

The carbon filaments was adopted by Joseph Swam a British chemist


and physicist , he began working with carbonized paper filaments in an
evacuated glass bulb but this bulb could produce light only by 13.5
hours. Despite of all , the Swams house was illuminated with these
bulbs , other houses as the Lord Armstrong also was also one of the first
houses to be illuminated by light bulbs

In the other world , Thomas Alba Edison was investigated about the
bulbs and how it could produce more light and also be more durability ,
the carbonized bamboo filament was discovered by Edisons team and
for him , the advantage of it was the durability , it could work at least
1200 hours . Also he created a complete vacuum that allow to the bulb
be more durable.

J.P Morgan and Edison created an Alliance . Edison Electric was founded by
Edison but after of many discussions because J.P Morgan lose a contract with
the Niagara falls cataracts for to did an hydroelectric , Morgan dismiss to Edison
of his our company and born the General Electric. The General Electric was
created by J.P Morgan and adopt the AC ( Alternative Current) because Edison
used the DC ( Direct Current.)

On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sndor Just and Croatian Franco Hanaman


were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that
lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament. Tungsten
filament lamps were first marketed by the Hungarian company Tungsram in
1904. This type is often called Tungsram-bulbs in many European countries.

Parts

1 Outline of Glass bulb

2 Low pressure inert gas (argon,


nitrogen, krypton, xenon)

3 Tungsten filament

4 Contact wire (goes out of stem)

5 Contact wire (goes into stem)

6 Support wires (one end embedded in


stem; conduct no current)

7 Stem (glass mount)

8 Contact wire (goes out of stem)

9 Cap (sleeve)

10 Insulation (vitrine)

11 Electrical contact

Curiosities

In the Firehouse Livermore (California) is an incandescent bulb lit


wearing since 1901. This Bulb has a carbon filament.

You might also like