At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” ...

According to the researchers, twisted light can be produced using the same technology as the 100-year-old Edison bulb (filame ...

creating a better light bulb. The carbon filament used in Thomas Edison’s world-changing invention wasn’t very energy efficient. Scientists were experimenting with tungsten, which had the ...

Researchers envision robots and self-driving cars that see like mantis shrimp, distinguishing light waves with different ...

twisted light—known as chiral light—using technology reminiscent of Thomas Edison’s Lightbulb. The results, published in a ...

In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison of the USA, who also had just made a successful electric light bulb.

Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of light bulbs ... the lighting system Thomas Edison focused on the entire ...