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History of Electric Light · Henry Schroeder — chapter 5 of 20 · ~169 words · public domain

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Diagram of T-H Arc Lighting System 39

Thomson-Houston Arc Lamp, 1878 40

Thomson Double Carbon Arc Lamp 40

Maxim Dynamo 41

Sawyer’s Incandescent Lamp, 1878 42

Farmer’s Incandescent Lamp, 1878 42

Maxim’s Incandescent Lamp, 1878 43

Edison’s First Experimental Lamp, 1878 44

Diagram of Constant Current Series System 45

Diagram of Edison’s Multiple System, 1879 45

Edison Dynamo, 1879 46

Edison’s High Resistance Platinum Lamp, 1879 47

Edison’s High Resistance Platinum in Vacuum Lamp, 1879 47

Edison’s Carbon Lamp of October 21, 1879 48

Demonstration of Edison’s Incandescent Lighting System 49

Dynamo Room, S. S. Columbia 50

Original Socket for Incandescent Lamps 51

Wire Terminal Base Lamp, 1880 51

Original Screw Base Lamp, 1880 52

Improved Screw Base Lamp, 1881 52

Final Form of Screw Base, 1881 53

Diagram of Edison’s Three Wire System, 1881 54

Diagram of Stanley’s Alternating Current Multiple System, 1885 55

Standard Edison Lamp, 1884 56

Standard Edison Lamp, 1888 56

Standard Edison Lamp, 1894 57

Various Bases in Use, 1892 58

Thomson-Houston Socket 59

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