lighting: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	illumination

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Know how halogen and fluorescent bulbs, as well as sodium, mercury, and metal-halide vapour lamps, and LEDs work

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Key People

Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light

Thomas Edison

American inventor

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Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton

British inventor

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John Hopkinson

British physicist

Stevenson, Robert: lighthouse on the Isle of May

Robert Stevenson

British engineer

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Edwin James Houston

American engineer