The light bulb led to new energy breakthroughs ... is invented While working for General Electric, Nick Holonyak Jr., invented the first visible-spectrum LED in the form of red diodes.

In February 1879, Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was the first street lit by incandescent light bulbs, which Englishman Joseph Swan had invented the year before. In April ...

By 1880, he'd exponentially increased the life of his bulb to 1,200 hours. In 1878, he founded the Edison Electric Light Co. in New York City. When he turned on his Pearl Street power station in ...

Those funky glass blobs that used to hang on and around power lines are highly prized by Wyoming collectors. These vintage ...

Just think of all the nervous energy coursing through all those kiddies lined up for this Sunday afternoon’s piano recital.

to thank for the yellow light, but as a municipal employee he could not patent his invention. By 1930, all major American cities and many small towns had at least one electric traffic signal ...

Recently, New York State applied for an injunction against the Tomadelli Electronic Light Corporation ... new sort of incandescent bulb which apparently did not need electric current to make ...

You invented the internet ... and no one would expect misty Portland to power a light bulb for long with solar energy, which is crucial to Georgetown’s success. But beyond its modest size ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...