incandescent light bulb
noun
: a light bulb whose light is produced by the glow of a wire heated by an electric current
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Visitors can explore a museum featuring some of Edison’s 1,093 patents, including the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb, along with the research lab and gardens.
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David Fischer, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
Experimentation and Iteration No inventor in the modern world comes close to someone who radically transformed it as Thomas Edison (1847-1931) did with the incandescent light bulb in 1879.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering View 3 Images Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
The situation is a bit like holding a hot incandescent light bulb or a mug of boiling tea and, instead of suffering a burn having your hand flash-vaporize to a rapidly expanding cloud of plasma; that is, the available thermal energy is insufficient to do the deed.
—Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
When the phaseout of the incandescent light bulb, a go-to material for artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, began in 2012, museums either amassed stockpiles of the old bulbs or found a reliable supplier.
—Evan Moffitt Daniel Terna, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
When the lights are on, the device is a pale green color, and the company says that the plastic housing can glow for up to eight hours when charged by various light sources (including incandescent light bulb, direct sunlight, or blacklight).
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
Get ready to say goodbye to the once ubiquitous incandescent light bulb, pioneered by Thomas Edison more than a century ago.
—David Hamilton, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
With the demise of the incandescent light bulb, toy engineers switched to a heating element in 2006.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2012
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David Fischer, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
Experimentation and Iteration No inventor in the modern world comes close to someone who radically transformed it as Thomas Edison (1847-1931) did with the incandescent light bulb in 1879.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering View 3 Images Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
The situation is a bit like holding a hot incandescent light bulb or a mug of boiling tea and, instead of suffering a burn having your hand flash-vaporize to a rapidly expanding cloud of plasma; that is, the available thermal energy is insufficient to do the deed.
—Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
When the phaseout of the incandescent light bulb, a go-to material for artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, began in 2012, museums either amassed stockpiles of the old bulbs or found a reliable supplier.
—Evan Moffitt Daniel Terna, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
When the lights are on, the device is a pale green color, and the company says that the plastic housing can glow for up to eight hours when charged by various light sources (including incandescent light bulb, direct sunlight, or blacklight).
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
Get ready to say goodbye to the once ubiquitous incandescent light bulb, pioneered by Thomas Edison more than a century ago.
—David Hamilton, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
With the demise of the incandescent light bulb, toy engineers switched to a heating element in 2006.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2012
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