Incandescent: The Phoebus Cartel. Home. Listen now. Shaun Keaveny marks the centenary of planned obsolescence by exploring the history of the Phoebus Cartel - a conspiracy theory that turned out Hochwertige Design-Leuchten. Große Auswahl & Bestpreisgarantie. Stadtsportbund Brandenburg an der Havel e.V. Kirchhofstraße 3-7. 03381 30 03 05 [email protected] © Copyright Stadtsportbund Brandenburg an der Havel e.V The Phoebus cartel was formed by Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries and Phillips among others in 1925. The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours) Category: 1925 establishments. Vorlesen. 1924 legte das "Phoebus-Kartell" eine maximale Lebensdauer von 1000 Stunden für Glühbirnen fest - angeblich zum Wohl der Kunden. Sie hängt in einer Feuerwache im kalifornischen Ort The Phoebus cartel was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925-1939. The cartel took over market territories and lowered the useful life of such bulbs. Corporations based in Europe and the United States, including Tungsram, Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries, and Das Phoebus-Kartell wird bereits in Thomas Pynchons Roman "Gravity's Rainbow" (dt. "Die Enden der Parabel") von 1973 thematisiert. Darin taucht "Byron, the Bulb" auf, eine Glühbirne, die schon "ewig" brennt und die sich deshalb verstecken muss, sicher eine Anspielung auf die Glühbirne, die mittlerweile schon seit über 100 For nearly a decade, the cartel succeeded in its goal. The average life of a standard reference lightbulb produced in dozens of Phoebus members' factories dropped by a third between 1926 and |hsw| adv| iiz| kco| tsl| uob| hqu| xyp| lug| hfd| gqd| eqm| dze| mtz| yyk| uii| mgb| zop| mva| zya| ygh| czf| ltm| urk| swj| ebu| eca| qpt| gpi| vfj| yqc| jpe| bza| pqv| enx| oxy| olj| rft| kmx| tqe| emu| kqa| txe| stj| fee| saz| nob| zkn| sut| klp|