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Edmund Germer

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He co-founded a company that worked on developing inert gas-glowing cathode rectifiers, and subsequently in the 1930s worked as an independent inventor for companies such as
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emitters. Prior to that, the unpleasant color of the emitted light made these lamps unfit for daily use, despite their much higher efficiency.
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for a fluorescent lamp with Friedrich Meyer and Hans J. Spanner on December 10, 1926, which led to
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This German engineer, inventor or industrial designer biographical article is a
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powder to transform UV into visible light led to the realization of
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Berlin
University of Berlin
Inventor
German
inventor
fluorescent lamp
University of Berlin
applied for a patent
U.S. patent 2,182,732
General Electric
licensed
patent
mercury-vapor lamp
arc lamp
ultraviolet
fluorescing
arc discharge
incandescent
Osram
Philips
Engelhard
Franklin Institute
Frank P. Brown Medal
"Experimental fluorescent lamp"
"Inventors HOF Inductee Edmund Germer Invented the Fluorescent Lamp"
Bio
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