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Peter Cooper Hewitt
(5 May 1861 - 25 Aug 1921)
American electrical engineer who invented the mercury-vapour lamp, an important forerunner of fluorescent lamps.
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“When it is
considered that this light, when obtained with mercury gas, has an
efficiency at least eight times as great as that obtained by an
ordinaryincandescent lamp, it will be appreciated that it has its use in places where lack of red is not important, for the economy of operation will much more than compensate for the somewhat unnatural color given to illuminated objects.”
— Peter Cooper Hewitt (1902)

