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 ...

Although tungsten-filament bulbs are the world’s most extensively used light source, they are inefficient and generate more heat than light. However, a new microscopic tungsten lattice created at the ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Irving Langmuir received a Ph.D. in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Thomas Edison and others considered ...

Researchers create a prototype bulb with a carbon nanotube in place of the standard tungsten filament. It uses less power, burns brighter and could lead to the first major overhaul in bulb design in a ...

This month, let’s take a deeper look at one of the most ubiquitous forms of illumination in our world: tungsten or incandescent bulbs. Incandescent means light from heat, which also includes the light ...

The warm glow of an old electric light-bulb, which has been banned in many countries because it is so energy inefficient, may soon be making a comeback following a breakthrough in “light recycling”.

Columbia’s Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield. Twenty million tons of iron and steel rust ...