Research

Megan's questions:

1. On average, how much power does an
LED/Halogen bulb use?
(Note: the unit of Power is Watts)

2. How much power did the first light bulb run on?

3. What was the design of the first light bulb?
(Can we find a design that mimics it or gets
close enough to mimic it?)

4. What is the design of the LED/Halogen?
(We might have already answered this one.)

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Stats for 2:
http://www.edisontechcenter.org/halogen.html
http://www.edisontechcenter.org/incandescent.html
http://www.edisontechcenter.org/LED.html

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reproduction bulbs
http://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/edison-light-bulbs?GCID=S14464x015&KEYWORD=reproduction%20edison%20bulb&partner=gpc&gclid=CL3t2_j3xrUCFQLqnAodOSgALA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/nyregion/08bulb.html?_r=0

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LEDs

1 varries on the color of the LED
2 cannot find
see links for 3 and 4

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found online material for an RPI course

1 Watt not stated, but other units
converison link: http://www.rapidtables.com/calc/light/how-lumen-to-watt.htm
need to know efficacy (the funny looking n, known as nu)

3 see slide show PDF

4 see chapters 8, 11, 16-21

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~schubert/Light-Emitting-Diodes-dot-org/

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3 Edison Light bulb history

http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/edison-lightbulb/edison-lightbulb.php?cts=electricity

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Halogens:

1 http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/lighting/bulbs.html
2 http://www.edisontechcenter.org/halogen.html
3 unable to find anything
4 http://www.faqs.org/patents/imgfull/20110148272_05

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comparison site:
http://www.lif.co.uk/lam
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not much else of use for halogens,
my main concern at the moment is still how it would affect history...
one thing i need to find is if batteries (AA, AAA, etc.) could be produced the in the century sooner.  If so we  have the possibility of inventing a calculator that would be between Babbage and computers.

That's everything I have at the moment, will plan to be for the next meeting Monday.
Also I live practically in the Olin Engineering Building.  If you want to come and talk to me/ask questions you can find me there.