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| Lights & Lamps |
| Invention | Inventor | Year | Patent No. |
| Arc Lamp | William Edwards Staite | 1834 | |
| Ballast | | | |
| Carbon Button Lamp | Nikola Tesla | 1886 | US335,786 |
| Ceramic Discharge Metal Halide Lamp | Sheppard Cohen | 1980 | US4,355,265 |
| Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) | Philips | 1980 | |
| Davy Lamp | Humphry Davy | 1915 | |
| Dyno Torch | | | |
| Electrodeless Lamp | John M. Anderson (GE)
Lezdinsh A.E & Skudra A.J | 1967
1985 | US3,500,118
USSR1,326,089 |
| Electronic Photographic Flash | Harold Edgerton | 1931 | |
| Flashlight | David Misell | 1897 | |
| Fluorescent Lamp | Edmund Germer
Friedrich Meyer
Hans J. Spanner | 1926 | US2,182,732 |
| Full Spectrum Lighting | John Ott | 1950s | US4,091,441 |
| Incandescent Light Bulb | Thomas Alva Edison | 1879 | US223,898 |
| Klieg Light | John Kliegl &
Anton Kliegl | | |
| LED Flashlight Bulb | Shuji Nakamura | 1992 | |
| Light-Emitting Diode (LED) | Nick Holonyak Jr. | 1962 | |
| Mercury-Vapor Lamp | Peter Cooper Hewitt | 1901 | |
| Neon Lamp | Georges Claude | 1910 | US1,125,476 |
| Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) | Eastman Kodak | 1980 | US4,356,429 |
| Plasma Lamp | Dennis Gabor | | |
| Polymer Light-Emitting Diode (PLED) | Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) | 1994 | US5,425,125 |
| Safelight | Turner Richards | 1937 | |
| Sealed Beam | | | |
| Searchlight | John Frederick Charles Fuller | | |
| Sodium Vapor Lamp | Arthur H. Compton | 1919 | |
| Stroboscope | Joseph Plateau
Simon von Stampfer | 1832
1832 | |
| Torchiere | | c1650 | |
| Tungsten-Halogen Lamp | Elmer G. Fridrich &
Emmett. H. Wiley
(General Electric) | 1958 | US2,883,571 |
| Tungsten Filament | Irving Langmuir | 1915 | |
| Xenon Arc Lamp | | | |
| Xenon Flash Lamp | Harold E. Edgerton | 1932 | |
| Yablochkov Candle | Paul (Pavel) Yablochkov | 1876 | |
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