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  • 40W 1900 Straight-sided Tungsten Bulb
  • Item # C8350
  • Standard Base
  • price
    $17

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The 40W 1900 Straight-sided Tungsten Bulb, an early-20th-century innovation, resulted in new lighting designs -- like semi-indirect bowl chandeliers, which directed and reflected the brighter light.

Tip: Install upright or upside down. Bulb can fail if pointed horizonally or at an angle.

Carbon-filament light bulbs debuted in the 1890s and lit the way until 1912, when bright and powerful tungsten-filament bulbs transformed the industry.

Painted bulbs, introduced in the 1920s, added a decorative touch to tungsten bulbs and the exposed-bulb fixtures popular at the time.