Philips also abandoned the Sylvania trademark which is owned by Osram.

With the help of some companies such as Philips and Osram Sylvania, halogen bulbs have been made for standard household fittings, and can replace banned incandescent light bulbs of low luminous efficacy.

* Sylvania Electric Products, former North American electric and electronics firm, forerunner to Havells Sylvania and Osram Sylvania.

* Sylvania 300, a NASCAR race sponsored by Osram Sylvania

A Osram Sylvania | Sylvania Roadster high pressure sodium vapor street lamp from Australia.

* Osram Sylvania

* Osram Sylvania

The company's North American operation is Osram Sylvania, headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts ; products sold in the United States, United States territories, Canada and Mexico are sold under the Osram Sylvania brand name.

Osram Sylvania Inc. manufactures and markets a wide range of lighting products for homes, business, and vehicles and holds the largest share of the North American lighting market.

With the acquisition of the North American division by Osram GmbH in January 1993 Osram Sylvania Inc. was established.

The rights to the Sylvania name in many countries are held by the U. S. subsidiary of the German company Osram which, itself, is a subsidiary of Siemens AG ( NYSE: SI ).

Osram Sylvania Inc. manufactures and markets a wide range of lighting products for homes, business, and vehicles and holds a leading share of the North American lighting market.

* Osram Sylvania

* Osram Sylvania web site

Philips uses one system which is becoming outdated ( 2010 ), while the ( German ) Osram system is becoming dominant outside North America.

Osram AG is a multinational lighting manufacturer headquartered in Munich, Germany, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens.

As the world ’ s second largest manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductor for the illumination, sensing and visualization sectors, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH combines extensive know-how in semiconductors, converter materials and packages under one roof.

The Phoebus cartel was a cartel of, among others, Osram, Philips and General Electric from December 23, 1924 until 1939 that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs.

The British General Electric Company imported Osram filaments for their own production of light bulbs.

Insight Media market research divided the leading players in this application into micro-display makers, e. g., TI's DLP, Himax, Micron / Displaytech and Syndiant LCoS, Maradin, Microvision, Lemoptix and bTendo MEMS scanners ); light source makers, e. g., Lumileds, Osram, Cree LEDs and Corning, Nichia, Mitsubishi Lasers ; and module makers, e. g., Jabil / Sypro Digital Light Processing ( DLP ) with LED, 3M Liquid crystal on Silicon ( LCoS ) with LED, Explay LCoS with laser.

In 1996, Osram started selling their Endura induction light system, operating at 250 kHz.

It is a technology supplier of self-powered modules ( transmitters, receivers, transceivers, energy converter ) to companies ( e. g. Siemens Building Technologies, Distech Controls, Seamless Sensing, Zumtobel, Omnio, Osram, Wieland Electric, Peha, Thermokon, Wago, Herga ), which develop and manufacture products used in building automation ( light, shading, hvac ), industrial automation, and automotive industry ( replacement of the conventional battery in tyre pressure sensors ).

Osram Opto Semiconductors is a wholly owned subsidiary of Osram which designs and manufactures opto-semiconductor products.

In 1921 a precursor organisation was founded by Osram, the " Internationale Glühlampen Preisvereinigung ".

Osram was founded in 1919 by the merger of the lighting businesses of Auergesellschaft, Siemens & Halske and Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft ( AEG ).

Xenon short-arc lamps were invented in the 1940s in Germany and introduced in 1951 by Osram.

Other major employers are Siemens, with its subsidiary, Osram Opto-Semiconductors, and Siemens VDO ( now Continental AG ), with the headquarters of its car component business.

Osram is a multinational corporation with headquarters in Munich, Germany, and plants in Germany, Italy, France, India, Latvia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Russia, Japan, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia and Argentina, and it employs more than 40, 000 people throughout the world.

Stained or unstained sections were examined under dark field illumination in a Zeiss fluorescence microscope equipped with a mercury vapor lamp ( Osram HBO 200 ).

The resulting company, ( to become Osram in 1909 ), was to lead the way in lamp design and the burgeoning demand for electric lighting was to make GEC's fortune.

Hirst's shrewd investment in lamp manufacture was proving extremely profitable and in 1909 Osram began production of the most successful tungsten filament lamps in the industry.

In March 2011, it was decided to list Osram on the stock market in the autumn, but CEO Peter Löscher said Siemens intended to retain a long-term interest in the company, which was already independent from the technological and managerial viewpoints.

Major industrial sites included the Osram lamp factory at Brook Green, the J. Lyons factory ( which at one time employed 30, 000 people ) and the largest municipal power station in Britain, built near the gasworks in Sands End.

* John Fowler & Co. 0-4-0DM No. 20067 " Osram "

One company, Osram, made an ingenious move.

* MX40 – Osram pentagrid 1934.

The General Electric company pays £ 100 to have a box of Osram electric lamps flown from Shoreham to Hove in England.

In 2008, the Plansee Group acquired the GTP division from Osram.

Osram, Philips, Tungsram, Associated Electrical Industries, ELIN, Compagnie des Lampes, International General Electric, and the GE Overseas Group were members of the Phoebus cartel.

" MetalArc " is Osram Sylvania's trademark for their metal halide lamps ; " Arcstream " and " MultiVapor " are General Electric's trademark.

As an example of application and efficiency of mercury lamps, the 61 " Samsung DLP rear projection TV ( HL-S6187W ) uses a 150-watt Osram P-VIP lamp.

In 1985 Osram started selling its model EL lamp, which was the first CFL to include an electronic ballast.