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BULB DISCUSSION BOARDS => Antique Bulb Discussion => Topic started by: Scott on June 07, 2000, 08:09:00 pm

Title: Old Flashbulbs
Post by: Scott on June 07, 2000, 08:09:00 pm
Does anyone out there collect old flashbulbs? I have a few of these somewhere. Just curious again. Scott
Title: Old Flashbulbs
Post by: Bob Masters on June 08, 2000, 06:19:00 am
Scott,
I'm SURE somebody does. Although I never have collected any yet, I have used them before. My mother gave me her old 50's ARGUS camera, with flash bulbs, and I used them all up taking pictures (nice ones !) years ago. I always figured though that I'd never be able to find any more.
Do you know what type they are ?

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Title: Old Flashbulbs
Post by: Tim on June 08, 2000, 06:27:00 pm
Scott,

You will want to check out the link below. I think the site is geared more towards using vintage flashbulbs but there's some neat stuff there if your interested in old flashbulbs. Personally I don't really collect them but I have a few early Mazda foil filled types along with some early Xenon flash tubes.
 http://www.dhios.demon.co.uk/Flashbulbs/ (http://www.dhios.demon.co.uk/Flashbulbs/)

For even more detailed information you should hunt down the following book at your local library or old book seller: Discharge Lamps for Photography and Projection by H.K. Bourne Published by Chapman & Hall LTD, London, 1948. The book is full of info on early oddball photography lamps - mercury vapor, pointolite lamps, etc. Here's a picture from the book of a pointolite lamp used in photography - circa 1940s:
 (http://www.bulbcollector.com/photos/pointolite.jpg)

Sorry if I drifted off the main topic  (http://www.bulbcollector.com/ubb/smile.gif)



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-Tim
Title: Old Flashbulbs
Post by: Scott on June 10, 2000, 08:02:00 pm
Thanks for the replies! I'm not sure of the bulb numbers, but the larger of the ones I have has a standard Edison base,and is about the size of a 15 watt bulb, or the bulb used to light the interior of a stove. The others are bayonet base,with the same base size as an automotive taillight bulb,and are a bit bigger than a taillight bulb. I'll check out that page on flashbulbs.
Title: Old Flashbulbs
Post by: Tim on June 15, 2000, 10:10:00 pm
For Scott or anyone else interested, here's a neat Mazda advertisement from 1931 introducing the Mazda "foil filled" flashbulb (and the Mazda S-2 mercury pool sunlamp):

Click here (http://www.bulbcollector.com/photos/mazda.jpg) (200kb)

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-Tim
Title: Old Flashbulbs
Post by: Ray Minton on June 17, 2000, 12:06:00 am
That's pretty cool Tim. What's the deal with Mercury and Lightbulbs though ?