Talk:Barringer Hill

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Is this the "Barringer Hill" mentioned in the Fleet Foxes song "Ragged Wood" ? 71.55.43.105 (talk) 16:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Nernst Lamp 1901–1906
http://www.nernst.de/lamp/nernstlamp.htm Nernst Lamp Company, Pittsburgh reads:

In the United States, George Westinghouse undertook the commercial development and introduction of the Nernst lamp. In 1901 the Nernst Lamp Company was organized and took up its quarters in Pittsburgh in a five-story factory building with a total floor area of 101,000 square feet. Yttria (Y2O3) was obtained from the mineral gadolinite which the company extracted from its own mine at the legendary Barringer Hill, Texas (since 1937 buried beneath the waters of Lake Buchanan, Colorado River). By 1904 a total of over 130,000 Nernst glowers had been placed in service throughout the country.

However, the Nernst lamp lost competition when the more convenient incandescent light bulbs containing a metal (e.g., tungsten) filament and filled with an inert gas (e.g., argon) became available soon after (Irving Langmuir [a PhD student of Nernst], General Electric Company, 1913). The Barringer Hill mine closed for good in 1906. --Helium4 (talk) 22:03, 17 January 2016 (UTC)