More than a century after their invention, tungsten filaments—the coiled metal wires at the heart of many incandescent light bulbs—continue to be popular. This is despite the growing market for LED ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Thomas Edison and others considered ...

The latest models of tabletop SEMs (TT-SEMs) feature a range of electron sources. Although a tungsten filament is used in a majority of TT-SEMs, certain models come with a Cerium Hexaboride (CeB 6) ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- You can't get something for nothing, physicists say, but sometimes a radical innovation can come close. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories -- exceeding the predictions of ...

Once ubiquitous, the incandescent light bulb has become something of a lucerna non grata lately. Banned from home lighting, long gone from flashlights, and laughed out of existence by automotive ...

Columbia’s Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield. Twenty million tons of iron and steel rust ...