Talk:Alexander Lodygin

Lomonosov Prize? Need clarification
This article reads:


 * In 1874, Petersburg Academy of Sciences awarded him with a Lomonosov Prize for his invention of the filament lamp.

Is this 'Lomonosov Prize' the same as the Lomonosov Gold Medal? According to the Lomonosov Gold Medal article, that award was started in 1959, which doesn't jibe with the date given for Lodygin's award.

Is there a different Lomonosov Prize? Is one of the articles inaccurate? Or am I missing something?

Kevyn 11:51, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * No, these are different prizes. Lomonosov Prize was one that Imperial Russia has awarded and was held since 1866 till 1918. 89.178.138.7

Ahead of his time
"Lodygin's ideas were almost always ahead of his time. He invented an incandescent light bulb before Edison, but it was not commercially profitable."

Ok, but who didn't invent an incandescent light bulb before Edison. The relevant article points to a large number of people who did. Perhaps this needs rewording without the priori that Edison invented the light bulb.

Lodygin was far from the first and decades after the first to invent an impractical and non-commercuially viable incandescent light. And a patent number is needed for the tungsten filament bulb he supposedly sold to GE. Even if GE did buy rights to some patent, this might have been to head off the interminable patent litigation which extended most of the way hrough the duration of Thomas Edison's patent. Is there a reliable source which says that GE's tungsten bulb of 1906 was based on earlier work by Logygin? If not, this POV claim should be removed. Edison (talk) 15:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC) --Elephant53 (talk) 14:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Scuba gear

 * A reference is needed for the claim that he invented scuba gear. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:35, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I have extended the info a little bit and provided a couple of refs Alex Bakharev (talk) 07:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)