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Perseverance. To get a light-filament he carbonized thousands of materials? shreds from a fan, red hair from an assistant's beard. Thousands of invention ideas he tried, worked on, cast aside. He said that when an experiment seemed impossible of solution, that was the time to show interest, not discouragement. His was a standard phrase of the era: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration...
Professor Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia, who invented the drawn tungsten filament for electric light bulbs and developed the first commercial process of plating automobile hardware with chromium, last week announced that he was successfully electroplating objects with tungsten...
...Inventor Machlett's improvement is a success, it may be possible to use neon lamps in homes and offices to replace incandescent bulbs. The brightness of the incandescent filament is usually too intense, requires lamp shades. Neon light is diffused, needs no shading. It more nearly approaches daylight, gives off healthful ultra violet rays...
Instead of the old unwieldy magnesium powder pan, the new flashlamp looks like an ordinary incandescent bulb. Filled with oxygen, the bulb contains a specially coated filament and crumpled sheets of thin aluminum foil. When the circuit is closed the filament lights, ignites the aluminum foil. Each bulb is used only once. The lamp can be plugged in on an ordinary 115-volt alternating current circuit, or can be used with batteries. The flash lasts only 1/100 sec. Being completely self-contained, offering no fire hazard, the flashlamp can be used where flashlight photographs have never been taken before...
...Manhattan meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers last week (see below) was Dr. Matthew Luckiesh's presentation of his new General Electric sunlight lamp. The bulb is 6¼ in. long. It contains two separated tungsten electrodes, a little pool of mercury, a tungsten filament. When the electric switch is turned, current heats the filament to incandescence. The heat vaporizes the mercury. The mercury vapor diffuses between the electrodes and permits the current to jump across as a brilliant mercury arc. The combined light of arc, electrodes and filament appears much whiter than Mazda "daylight" bulbs...