wunder · LibraryPart 2
Read in the Wunder reader — freeDe Moleyns’ Incandescent Lamp 13
Early Developments of the Arc Lamp 14
Joule’s Law 16
Starr’s Incandescent Lamp 17
Other Early Incandescent Lamps 19
Further Arc Lamp Developments 20
Development of the Dynamo, 1840–1860 24
The First Commercial Installation of an Electric Light 25
Further Dynamo Developments 27
Russian Incandescent Lamp Inventors 30
The Jablochkoff “Candle” 31
Commercial Introduction of the Differentially Controlled Arc Lamp 33
Arc Lighting in the United States 33
Other American Arc Light Systems 40
“Sub-Dividing the Electric Light” 42
Edison’s Invention of a Practical Incandescent Lamp 43
Edison’s Three-Wire System 53
Development of the Alternating Current Constant Potential System 54
Incandescent Lamp Developments, 1884–1894 56
The Edison “Municipal” Street Lighting System 62
The Shunt Box System for Series Incandescent Lamps 64
The Enclosed Arc Lamp 65
The Flame Arc Lamp 67
The Constant Current Transformer for Series Circuits 69
Enclosed Series Alternating Current Arc Lamps 69
Series Incandescent Lamps on Constant Current Transformers 70
The Nernst Lamp 71
The Cooper-Hewitt Lamp 72
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