Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns bright ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tungsten-filament bulbs — the most widely used light source in the world —burn hands if unscrewed while lit. The bulbs are infamous for generating more heat than light. Now a ...
As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there’s a form of carbon that was unknown back ...