Light Bulb Collection

The New York Sunday herald. Feb. 16th. c1896. Creator: Charles Hubbard Wright
The New York Sunday herald. Feb. 16th. c1896

Combination Wall and Standing Lamp, c. 1938. Creator: Jacob Lipkin
Combination Wall and Standing Lamp, c. 1938

Grand Ball at Devonshire House, on Tuesday, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Grand Ball at Devonshire House, on Tuesday, 1850. London society party:..upwards of eight hundred of the highest members of the aristocracy having assembled within its gorgeous saloons

Interior of farmers two-room log home, FSA borrower, Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Interior of farmers two-room log home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. They have their alfalfa seed stored in corner waiting for a better price. Boundary County, Idaho

Packing fresh prunes at night on Produce Row during busy season, Yakima, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Packing fresh prunes at night on Produce Row during busy season, wages two cents per box. Washington, Yakima

Street Post Lamp, c. 1942. Creator: Regina Henderer
Street Post Lamp, c. 1942

Girandole Coloqunites, c. 1902, (c2014-2017). Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Girandole Coloqunites, c.1902. Girandole Coloqunites, c.1902

Philips point of sale stand for light bulbs, 1962. Artist: Michael Walters
Philips point of sale stand for light bulbs, 1962. In a photograph taken for Philips Electrical, a point of sale stand for light bulbs can be seen with the range of domestic light bulbs from 1962

Children on a fairground ride, 2005

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, with his first dynamo for producing electric light, 1880s. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents

Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Swan (1828-1914) was the inventor of bromide paper for photography and of an incandescent light bulb

Mazda Half-Watt Type Electric Lamps Advert, 1919. From The British Printer Vol. XXXI. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1919]

The Ediswan Pointolite, c1916. The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was an English manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and other electrical goods

Edisons incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Inside the Mosque of Muhammad Ali at the Saladin Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, c1920s. Plate taken From In the Land of the Pharaohs, published by Lehnert & Landrock (Cairo)

Thomas Alva Edison at Menlo Park, late 1880s. Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey

Incandescent light bulb, 1929. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Thomas Alva Edison, American physicist and inventor, 1929. Obverse of a medal celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edisons (1847-1931) invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879

Making Edison light bulbs, 1880. Vacuum apparatus used to exhaust Edison incandescent light bulbs at G (centre top). From Scientific American. (New York, 1880)

Advertisement for Ediswan incandescent light bulbs, 1898. The Ediswan brand was the result of a merging of the interests of the two pioneers of electric light bulbs

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, 1924. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents, many of which were related to the development of electricity

Thomas Edison, American inventor, in his laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1870s (1920s)
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, working on the perfection of the incandescent light bulb, 1870s (1920s)

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1879. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents, many of which were related to the development of electricity

Manufacturing electric light bulbs, c1883 (1896). A mercury vacuum pump being used to evacuate (exhaust) light bulbs on a commercial scale

Edisons incandescent light globe in a table lamp fitting, 1891. The filament here is carbonised bamboo fibres. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor

Edisons incandescent lamps showing various forms of carbon filament, 1883. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Edisons carbon filament lamp, 1880. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Thomas Edison experimenting with electric lamps on his wedding day, 1871 (1883). Edison (right) is preoccupied with his work as his bride and other guests wait in the adjoining room

Joseph Wilson Swan, c1880
Joseph Wilson Swan, English chemist and physicist, c1880. Swan (1828-1914), pioneer of electric lighting and inventor of bromide photographic paper

Incandescent filament lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883
Incandescent filament electric lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883. St George Lane-Fox-Pitt (1856-1932) took out a number of patents for filament lamps between 1878 and 1881

The Electric Torchlight Procession in New York, USA, 1884. A torchlight parade in New York using Edison incandescent lamps fixed to the participants hats

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