• DOI:10.1109/5.915382
• Corpus ID: 28155048

Scanning our past from London: the filament lamp and new materials

@article{Bowers2001ScanningOP,
  title={Scanning our past from London: the filament lamp and new materials},
  author={Brian Bowers},
  journal={Proceedings of the IEEE},
  year={2001},
  volume={89},
  pages={413-415}
}

• B. Bowers
• Published 1 March 2001
• Physics
• Proceedings of the IEEE

A 19th century electrical artifact that has been completely transformed and given a new lease of life is the filament lamp. In the 19th century, the filament was made of carbon: no other material was satisfactory. The author looks at the development of early carbon lamps and the eventual transition to metal filament lamps using tantalum and tungsten.