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• n  electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity

• Though Thomas Edison is usually cited as the father of the lightbulb, it's more accurate to give Edison credit as the creator of the first commercially viable lightbulb.
• The hottest thing in household energy savings is the compact fluorescent lightbulb (CFL), a funny-looking swirl that fits into standard sockets.
• Lots of us have bought an energy-efficient lightbulb too.

• light bulb
• bulb
• incandescent lamp
• electric light
• electric-light bulb

News & Articles

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• 1Lightbulbs.com Adds a New Page Devoted to Landscape Lighting to its User-Friendly Website
  BALTIMORE, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- 1Lightbulbs.com , a website that offers a wide range of low cost light bulbs, has just added a brand new addition to landscape design and their site devoted ...
  June 14, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• John Culberson in AFP
  I'm convinced that the use of social media that we see today is just the tip of the iceberg,Culberson added. "The use of social media will become as commonplace in our everyday lives as flipping on a lightbulb or as natural as breathing."
• Arun Sarin in Economic Times
  The Times quoted Sarin as saying: "There wasn't a 'lightbulb moment', just a series of conversations with Sir John Bond, Vodafone's chairman."
• Gregg Popovich in The Daily Advertiser
  Whatever me might do ...... it's not like we're going to re-invent the lightbulb,Spurs coach Greg Popovich said. "In the second half, they outplayed us, outhustled us - they just played harder. That hustle and decision-making they had...