Nernst lamp
Lámpara de Nernst
- Date
- 1897 · confidence high
- Place
- Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Credited to
- Walther Hermann Nernst
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Walther Nernst developed an incandescent lamp with a ceramic filament that needs neither a vacuum nor inert gas, a precursor of carbon-filament-free incandescent lamps.
What it led to
- High-temperature conductive ceramics
- Research into solid electrolytes
- The later tungsten-filament lamp
- Nernst's thermodynamics work (Nobel Prize 1920)