Lighting · Recorded milestone
Phoebus bulb cartel
Recorded year1925
Osram, Philips, GE and other makers secretly agree to cap bulb life at 1,000 hours and fix prices, until the Second World War.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.