{"id":21820,"date":"2019-07-22T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2019-07-30T16:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:32:02","slug":"chapter-6-parts-of-a-simple-lightbulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/chapter-6-parts-of-a-simple-lightbulb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 6. Parts of a Simple Lightbulb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you want to look at the questions now, you can click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Edison\u2019s light bulbs are the simplest types of light\nbulbs. They have 3 basic parts: a glass globe, a filament, and a screw base. These\nlight bulbs are called incandescent light bulbs because \u201cincandescent<\/strong>\u201d means creating\nlight by being heated<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Powerful Light: Modern-day incandescent light bulbs can last 750-2,000 hours. That might sound like a lot, but LED light bulbs can last 40,000-50,000 hours.<\/strong>

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The glass globe, filament, and screw base combine to create\nan incandescent light bulb. The glass globe wraps all the parts of the bulb and\nprovides a covering so that nothing can catch fire from the heat from the\nfilament. A gas is put inside the glass globe that helps the filament create\nlight for a long time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The filament is the small metal coil that at the center of\nthe bulb. The filament uses the electrical current to create light. The\nfilament is made to resist the flow of electricity. As it begins to heat up,\nthe filament creates light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incandescent light bulb was becoming popular, but Thomas Edison wanted to make it better and more efficient. So, Edison invented a carbon filament lamp by putting carbon on a piece of thread. This metal covered thread was called a filament<\/strong>. This created a light bulb that would be able to provide light for 13 hours. Eventually, Edison used threads from bamboo to create a stronger light bulb. It could illuminate up to a couple hundred hours! (Today, light bulbs can last thousands of hours!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The base\u2019s most important job is to connect the electrical\ncurrent to the light bulb. The base also protects the parts of the bulb, like\nthe contact wires. These contact wires cannot be damaged because they allow a\nconstant flow of electricity to the filament of the bulb.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to look at the questions now, you can click here. Thomas Edison\u2019s light bulbs are the simplest types of light bulbs. They have 3 basic parts: a glass globe, a filament, and a screw base. These light bulbs are called incandescent light bulbs because \u201cincandescent\u201d means creating light by being heated. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22710,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions\/22710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}