The earliest known lamps are some 40,000 years old. Cave dwellers in Western Europe made them by hollowing out stones, and burning animal fat through a wick made of moss. Light is an essential part of ...
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One Inventor That Everyone Should Know But Even Historians Forget
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla often dominate the conversation about history's most important ...
Before electric headlights came along, early cars used an ingenious lighting method borrowed from horse-drawn carriages.
Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...
An employee at GE has dug up a time capsule containing century-old lightbulbs, a few of which can still light up. An employee at GE has dug up a time capsule containing century-old lightbulbs, a few ...
The earliest known lamps are some 40,000 years old. Cave dwellers in Western Europe made them by hollowing out stones, and burning animal fat through a wick made of moss. Light is an essential part of ...
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