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Elmer Fridrich and Emmett Wiley invented the halogen lamp in 1959; their invention was called a tungsten halogen lamp. In 1960 an engineer at General Electric named Fredrick Moby invented an improved version of the tungsten halogen lamp. Moby's version could fit into a standard light bulb socket.
Source:
China Industry News: History of Lighting and Lamps
National Museum of American History: Elmer Fridrich and Emmett Wiley's Tungsten Halogen Lamp
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