Filament.

Posted by Jim - May 31, 2012 - Lamps and Sources, Light and Photography

Oops. As far as the lamp goes, oops. Really, the inside of an incandescent lamp will always be awesome to me. Really, I just wanted to share this beauty with you all. … … here's my Pinterest!

Happy Birthday, Edison's Light Bulb!

Posted by Jim - October 21, 2010 - electricity, History, incandescent lamps, Industrial, Industry News, Industry Professionals, Innovation, Lamps and Sources, Old to New

Hey, is that a personified version of Thomas Edison's commercialized incandescent lamp? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Edison's commercialized tungsten incandescent lamp! Technically, Edison's patent was filed the following January 27 of 1880, but today in 1879 Edison got 13 hours and 32 minutes out of his lamp's tests and experiments. Regardless of Edison's politics and behavior, you [...]

Happy Birthday, Heinrich Göbel!

Posted by Jim - April 21, 2010 - electricity, incandescent lamps, Industry Professionals, Lamps and Sources, Legal Light, Lighting Technology

Is that – no way – it's Heinrich Göbel! (Dude, who invited this guy?) Happy Birthday, Heinrich! He looks like the kind of guy who should be in movies with Emilio Estevez and Lou Diamond Phillips about the Old West. This guy though, Heinrich Göbel (April 20, 1818 – December 4, 1893), is significant in [...]

Panasonic Says 19 Years on Their EverLED Lamp

Posted by Jim - September 18, 2009 - Environmentally Friendly Design, green, incandescent lamps, Industrial, Industry News, Lamps and Sources, LEDs, Lighting and The Economy, Lighting and the Environment

Stories of Panasonic's new EverLED lamp are making their way around the intarwebs in the last week – in October (the 21st to be specific), Japan will see the release of Panasonic's new line of household LED incandescent replacement lamps. Panasonic is selling this new LED source as one that will last 19 years if [...]

Sharp Says "Here World, Have Nine Models of LED A-Lamps"

Posted by Jim - July 17, 2009 - Environmentally Friendly Design, Lamps and Sources, LEDs, Lighting Manufacturing, Lighting Technology

Electronics manufacturer Sharp has released a series of nine LED A-type lamps for the world to chew on – color temperatures from warm white to daylight (so that's eight of the models) and a revolutionary color-changing remote controlled lamp that is controllable from warm white to daylight. That's pretty cool – my first question is [...]

The Light Bulb, Recreated – Top Ten from Yanko Design

Posted by Jim - July 7, 2009 - Lamps and Sources

I just read a great post at Yanko Design (thanks, iSquint!) about some new recreations of the regular ol' A-Lamp shaped light bulb. Something that really irks me is when people just recopy entire posts from other folks' work, and I have seen a lot of people reposting all of Yanko's content for that post. [...]

Interview with Howard Brandston at the NYT

Posted by Jim - June 11, 2009 - Designers, incandescent lamps, Industry Professionals, Lamps and Sources, Legal Light, Lighting and the Environment, Lighting and the Human Element, Lighting Technology, Policy and Legislation

A quick post – I just read an article from a few months ago with Howard Brandston at the New York Times about design, legislation, and defending the incandescent lamp. Check it out.

A Big Post About Compact Fluorescents

Posted by Jim - March 30, 2009 - cfl, Fluorescent Technology, halogen lamps, Home Lighting, incandescent lamps, Interior Design and Lighting, Lamps and Sources, Lighting and the Environment, Lighting and the Human Element, Lighting Discussion, Opinion, Standards and Compliance

I've been collecting information about CFLs for a few months now, and I've kept from writing this post for some reason until now. There is so much back and forth out there about compact fluorescents versus incandescents, compact fluorescents versus using halogens at a lower intensity via a dimmer, and the economy versus compact fluorescents. [...]