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Electrical filament
An electrical filament is a thread of metal, usually tungsten, which is used to convert electricity into heat and light for the incandescent light bulb as made in 1878 by Joseph Wilson Swan, among others. The first successful light bulb filaments were made of carbon (from bamboo), only later replaced with tungsten.
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