TY - JOUR AU - Rambusch, Viggo Bech AB - HISTORICAL The history of the electric light fixture Viggo Bech Rambusch A journey through the electrical light evolution from Edison's Menlo Park gang to Tiffany chandeliers, blackout portholes and affordable quartz fixtures The evolution of electric lighting, early Egyptian lighting techniqu es. particularly the fixtures that present The structure of fixture evoluti on is and control light, is an exciting, rather historically controlled by the de vel­ recent story when viewed against the opment of lamp technology relative to history of lighting in general which can light output, and so we will see t ha t easily be traced back 6,000 years to there are four phases; four po ints where giant improvements in la mp technology caused radical changes in lighting fixture design, each st e p re­ suiting in a better, stronger, brigh t er , smaller, more efficient lamp, rai sing the output from one lrn/W (one fc ) to 20 lrn/W in incandescents today . The author : president and chairman of the board, Rambusch Studios, New York, NY. This address was the IES Annual Conference keynote speech , St. Louis, 1984 . Edison asleep in his Menlo Park laboratory, 1911. He was notorious about TI - The History of the Electric Light Fixture JF - Lighting Design + Application DO - 10.1177/036063258401400809 DA - 1984-08-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-history-of-the-electric-light-fixture-1MOWu1Owo4 SP - 20 EP - 26 VL - 14 IS - 8 DP - DeepDyve ER -