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An old engraving of an early example of an electric light. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. English chemist Humphry Davy developed the first incandescent light in
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Davy's electric egg, 1883. Invented in 1809, it produced intense light from a voltaic arc between..., Foto de Stock, Imagen Derechos Protegidos Pic. HEZ-1157644 | agefotostock
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La lámpara Davy es una lámpara de seguridad para su uso en atmósferas inflamables como las minas de carbón, inventada en 1815 por Sir Humphry Davy. Consiste en una lámpara de mecha
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