Trivia question

[K2PG]

All of us learned in grade school that Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp. Who invented the following?:

1. Fluorescent lamp.

2. Mercury vapor lamp.

[WA3VJB]

Edward Craven Walker.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa092297.htm

[AG4YO]

All of us learned in grade school that Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp. Who invented the following?:

1. Fluorescent lamp.

2. Mercury vapor lamp.

Florenzent Zigfield and Freddy Mercury?

[Mike/W8BAC]

As Kids, our parents told us mercury came out of the tubes. I still hold my breath when a bulb get's broken.

[KB2WIG]

            Be,   atomic num #4

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[W1RKW]

I remember my parents had a clothes dryer that had a bulb in it that glowed purple like a tube rectum-fire and always fascinated me when I was a kid when I over-rode the interlock on the dryer door.  As I got older I realized that the bulb was used for disinfecting the clothing by emitting UV light and later realized it wasn't good to look at it either. 

[W1RKW]

Not sure why they needed those lights in a dryer as the clothes got pretty hot when drying.  Maybe it was an advertising thing way back when.  I don't believe dryers have them today.