Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
March 28, 2012 12:25 pm PDT

Turning on a 100-year-old light bulb

Incandescent lights work by turning heat into light. You run an electric current through a filament, the filament heats up, and as it does, it starts to glow. The basic element has been around since 1809. The trick is finding material for a filament that will get hot enough to glow, but won't destroy itself [...]


Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Tt5yV7PlDRQ/turning-on-a-100-year-old-ligh.html

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article