FEATURE/GE Follows Lead of Thomas Edison and Shines a Light On Innovation; Practical Incandescent, Electric Light Bulb Celebrates 125th Anniversary.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Feature Editors FEATURE...Technology I MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4642234 CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004 What would Thomas Edison think of incandescent in·can·des·cent adj. 1. Emitting visible light as a result of being heated. 2. Shining brilliantly; very bright. See Synonyms at bright. 3. lights that last 750 hours or filter out harsh colors of the spectrum to provide a purer, cleaner light? Little did Edison know his light bulb that lasted only 40 hours would grow into products like GE Reveal(R) bulbs that have sold over 170 million bulbs since their introduction in 2001. GE and Thomas Edison share a history together. GE had its beginnings with the merger of the Edison Electric Company with the Thompson-Houston Company. Both Edison and GE have shared a passion for innovative lighting products. The practical incandescent, electric light bulb is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Contrary to popular belief, Edison didn't invent the light bulb, but rather he improved upon it. In 1879, using lower current electricity, a small, carbonized For the process of carbonization, see . Carbonized were a Swedish death metal band. They later developed into psychedelic grindcore and gradually became more and more avant garde. filament filament, in astronomy: see chromosphere. , and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he was able to produce a reliable long-lasting source of light. On October 21, 1879, the first commercially practical incandescent lamp incandescent lamp Any of various devices that produce light by heating a suitable material to a high temperature. In an electric incandescent lamp, or lightbulb, a filament is enclosed in a glass shell that is either evacuated or filled with an inert gas. completed a 40-hour duration test at Edison's Menlo Park Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. Laboratory in New Jersey. Edison's eventual achievement was inventing not only an incandescent electric light, but also an electric lighting system that contained all the elements necessary to make the incandescent light, practical, safe and economical. In 1880, Edison was granted his main lamp patent, no. 223,898, on January 27th, covering the fundamental features of the carbon filament lamp. Edison adopted carbonized bamboo filaments for his lamps and increased their rated life to 600 hours. In 1890, Edison established the first incandescent lamp factory at Menlo Park. In 1892 the General Electric Company was formed with the merging of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company. GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance A major appliance is usually defined as a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting. , lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram monogram [Gr.,=single letter], symbol of a name or names, consisting typically of a letter or several letters worked together. A famous monogram is that of Christ, consisting of X (chi) and P (rho), the first two letters of Christ in Greek. (R), Profile(TM), GE(R), Hotpoint(R), SmartWater(TM), and Reveal(R) consumer brands, and Entellisys(TM) industrial brand. For more information about GE Consumer & Industrial, consumers can visit the company's web site at www.geconsumerandindustrial.com. MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4642234 |
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