John Wellington Starr

John Wellington Starr was an American inventor who worked on early incandescent lighting. In 1844 he filed a United States patent caveat with John Milton Sanders for an incandescent lamp and generator, and in 1845 he secured a British patent describing two lamp designs, one using a platinum filament sealed in glass and another using a carbon strip held in a vacuum above a column of mercury so the filament could be replaced. Starr demonstrated his lamps in England but contracted tuberculosis and died in 1846 before he could develop the designs further. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/