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Can you imagine if the electric light have not been invented yet?
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Youll be trembling as you walk along Click to a very edit Master subtitle style dark part of one street
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Oil lamp was used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric lights. Some of the Click to edit Master subtitle style fuels that were used are olive oil and whale oil.
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1802
Sir Humphry Davy created the first incandescent light by passing the current through a thin strip of platinum. However, It was not bright enough nor did it last long enough to be practical. Click to edit Master subtitle style
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1854
Heinrich Goebelin 1854 had designed incandescent light bulb using platinum leadin wires in an all-glass envelope, and a high vacuum. Click to edit Master subtitle style
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1860
Joseph Swan, who was a British physicist and chemist, developed a method of processing that avoided the early bulb blackening. His house was the first in the world to be lit by a light bulb.
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Thomas Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but he invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. Edison and his team discovered acarbonized bamboofilament that could last over 1,200hours. On 17th December, 1880, he became the founder of Edison Illuminating Company. Click to edit Master subtitle style
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1934
By November 1934, George Inman, Richard Thayer, Eugene Lemmers, and Willard A. Click to edit Master subtitle style Robertsdevelop the first modern fluorescent lamp. It produced more light George Inman and Richard Thayer were energy and released testing their first less heat compared fluorescent light. 6/5/12
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Edward E. Hammer develops the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)while working under Richard Thayer. Hammer's CFL worked at curbing reflective losses by spacing his spiral design in a certain way. The prototype sat in Hammer's office and it is theorized that visitors from competing companies copied the Click to edit Master subtitle styledesign. The first prototype was donated to the Smithsonian institute.
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Ed Hammer and his first successful prototype - now located at the Smithsonian Click to edit Master subtitleInstitute in Washington D.C. style
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John M. Andersondeveloped Clickmany improvements to edit Master subtitle style in the fluorescent lamp: short arc fluorescent lamp, fluorescent lamp without ballast, improved electrodes and fluorescent lamp dimming technology.
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Now, fluorescent lights are used widely as they can produce more light energy and release less heat compared to the incandescent light. It can also last longer than incandescent light.
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Without the invention of electric light, the Eiffel Tower will not look beautiful at night.
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Prepared by: 1. Nurul Aqilah binti Hamzah 2. Aliah Fatin binti Romizhi 3. Nor Adlina binti Ahmad Zamri 4. Nurhani Asyikin binti Muhd. Hanafiah 6/5/12