Light bulb makers moving out of Edison's shadow
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21/12/2000
Higher electricity bills, California's energy crisis and advances in technology are sparking some of the biggest changes in residential lighting since Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. Manufacturers have been expanding lighting far beyond Edison's energy-guzzling incandescent light bulb, improving the color and efficiency of lighting through halogen and compact florescent lights, and such novelties as "blue lights."