Copyright 2005 Frank Andrews - Home - Lightbulb Index - Contact Email: Frank
These pages are a record of a collection that I built up in the 1980's to research a book on the history of Electric Lighting. The book was only partly completed and will appear here in time. My area of interest was the developement of the bulb from; an expensive luxury 1900-10, developements leading to the modern bulb 1900-1920, Refinement and social impact 1920 onwards.
This book is an advanced draft, it still needs a good edit, and does not cover the technical aspects in any depth. Some chapters are little more than working notes. I had intended to collaborate with another collector who was going to provide the technical chapters but we lost contact and the project ground to a halt. I am not an expert on the technical side and most of my knowledge will be found in these pages - I would welcome any criticisms of my efforts which will be fully acknowledged alongside any corrections. I did not annotate the text with source references but all are listed in the bibliography and acknowledgements pages.
| A Short History of Electric Light |
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Introduction - 28 Oct 03 |
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan - 28 Oct 03 |
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Thomas Alva Edison - 28 Oct 03 |
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Edison and Swan - 28 Oct 03 |
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The Arc Lamp - 28 Oct 03 |
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The Incandescent Lamp, 1800-1900 - 28 Oct 03 |
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The Incandescent Lamp, 1900-1920 - 28 Oct 03 |
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The Incandescent Lamp, 1920 onwards - 28 Oct 03 |
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Other Types of Lamp - 28 Dec 03 |
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Calendar of Development - 28 Oct 03 |
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The Variety of Voltages in London c. 1910 - 28 Oct 03 |
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Some Manufacturers - 29 Oct 03 |
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Data From Some Inspected Bulbs - 29 Oct 03 |
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The Efficiency of Various Light Sources - 29 Oct 03 |
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List of Inventors & Others of Importance - 31 Oct 03 |
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Bibliography - 29 Oct 03 |
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A 1930 Mazda Catalogue (text) - 30 Oct 03 |
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Some Brand Names & Trade Marks - 30 Oct 03 |
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Acknowlegements - 28 Oct 03 |
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INDEX - 30 Oct 03 unlinked |
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The Osram Trade Mark by Ray Burgin - May 2009 |
| Various Ephemera |
| Lots of work to complete this section, but very interesting. |
| Cosmos Leaflet from 1922 Updated 28 Dec 03 |
| V.V.G. Poster 1 V.V.G. Poster 2 |
| V.V.G. Poster 3 V.V.G. Poster 4 |
| V.V.G. Poster 5 V.V.G. Poster 6 |
| V.V.G. Poster 8 Poster No 7 not known. |
| V.V.G. was a cartel of German, Swiss, Dutch, Austrian-Hungarian, Swedish and Italian electrical companies that competed against the other cartels. The largest was a cartel between the German AEG, the Amercian GEC and the British/French Thomson Houston companies. The only other large cartel was Internationales Galvanosteginsyndikat. These three cartels covered the globe. |
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I do not intend to put lots of links here but there does seem to be quite a lot of sites on the web now. There is a webring link below.
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