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Incandescent light bulb - Irving Langmuir's Researches

Time: 1913

Place: New York, U.S.

Details: In 1913, Irving Langmuir found that filling a lamp with inert gas instead of a vacuum resulted in twice the luminous efficacy and reduction of bulb blackening.

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