18-year-old electrical engineer student, Chris Rieger, has been working on his levitating light bulb project — fittingly referred to as the “LevLight Project” — for about six months now. Recently he ...

The most common type of lighting until recently, incandescent bulbs were the first models that made it possible to use electricity for light generation by heating a filament inside. Only about 5% of ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

Designers of early indoor LED light bulbs faced numerous technical hurdles, including AC-to-DC conversion, thermal heat-sinking, constraints imposed by current bulb sizes, electrical transients, and ...