Lamp Types
- Fuel lamps
- Betty lamp, butter lamp, carbide lamp, gas lighting, kerosene lamp, oil lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas mantle
- Safety lamps: Davy lamp & Geordie lamp
- Arc lamps
- Xenon arc lamp, Yablochkov candle
- Incandescent lamp
- A-lamp, Parabolic aluminized reflector lamp (PAR), reflector lamp (R), bulged reflector lamp (BR) (refer to lamp shapes)
- Obsolete types: limelight, carbon button lamp, Mazda (light bulb), Nernst glower
- Novelty: Lava lamp
- Special purpose: heat lamp, Globar, gas mantle
- Halogen – special class of incandescent lamps
- Gas-discharge lamp and high-intensity discharge lamp (HID)
- Mercury-vapor lamp, Metal-halide (HMI, HQI, CDM), Sodium vapor or "high-pressure sodium"
- Neon sign,
- Plasma lamp
- Fluorescent
- Fluorescent lamp, compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), Induction lamp, blacklight.
- Cold cathode
- Fiber optics
- Light-emitting diode (LED) (solid-state lighting)
- Nuclear: self-powered lighting
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