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Business and innovation

Business and innovation

Lighting the way

07 Mar 2018 James McKenzie
Taken from the March 2018 issue of Physics World

In the second of his new columns about physics in industry, James McKenzie looks at the lessons we can learn from the humble light bulb

Joseph Swan's light bulb (right) and Thomas Edison's (left)
Battle of the bulbs: Joseph Swan's light (right) never proved as commercially successful as Thomas Edison's (left). (Courtesy: CCI Archives/Science Photo Library)
As you may remember from my column in last month’s issue of Physics World, the editors and I could

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James McKenzie is the writer of the Transactions column for Physics World about physics in industry. He is writing here in a personal capacity
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