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The tungsten lightbulb very closely matches the color temperature of candle and oil light. Many of the complaints of early CFL and LED light bulbs was the poor quality of the color. Was the Edison bulb designed specifically to match natural light sources? or is that a coincidence?

by /u/ch00f in /r/AskHistorians

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