Much less is known about the inventor of the LED itself. As it turns out, the story is a tragic one about a young and extremely talented scientist who spent his working life as a technician in ...

Further improvement to the battery design led to the first commercially ... An incandescent electric light capable of lasting for long periods was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, and a small ...

Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for the development and application of blue light-emitting ... needed for the blue LED. Amano, 60, now a physics ...

Young Peruvian inventor Hernan Asto has created an LED lamp using electricity generated by plants, inspired by his ...