Artist: Philips Vinckboons (Ii)
Date: 1905
Museum: NEMO Science Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Technique: Glass
In 1891 Gerard Philips established a light bulb factory in Eindhoven with the aim of producing carbon wire filament incandescent light bulbs.The fittings and bulbs come from other factories, but Philips produced the carbon wire in-house.Carbon filament lamps were the first incandescent light bulbs, in which a filament emits light when heated by an electric current.The filament must be kept in a vacuum to prevent it from burning up,and this is why the filament is enclosed in a glass bulb.
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