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Koninklijke Philips N.V.

(Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, commonly known as Philips) is a Dutch technology company headquartered in Amsterdam with primary divisions focused in the areas of electronics, healthcare and lighting.

It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891, by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik.

It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world and employs around 105,000 people across more than 60 countries.

Sylvania Electric Products was a U.S. manufacturer of diverse electrical equipment, including at various times radio transceivers, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, and mainframe computers.

They were one of the companies involved in the development of the COBOL programming language.

Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights) are lights used for decoration in preparation for Christmas and for display throughout the Christmastide.

The custom goes back to the use decorating Christmas trees with candles, which symbolize Christ being the light of the world; these were brought by Christians into their homes in early modern Germany.

Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century.

By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights as along streets and on buildings Christmas decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself.

In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s.

By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in non-western countries / regions, notably in Japan and Hong Kong.

Throughout Christendom, Christmas lights continue to retain their symbolism of Jesus as the light of the world.

An LED lamp is a light-emitting diode (LED) product which is assembled into a lamp (or light bulb) for use in lighting fixtures.

LED lamps have a lifespan and electrical efficiency which are several times greater than incandescent lamps, and are significantly more efficient than most fluorescent lamps, with some chips able to emit more than 300 lumens per watt (as claimed by Cree and some other LED manufacturers).

The LED lamp market is projected to grow by more than twelve-fold over the next decade, from $2 billion in the beginning of 2014 to $25 billion in 2023, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25%.

As of 2016, LEDs use only about 10% of the energy an incandescent lamp requires.

An electric light is a device that produces visible light by the flow of electric current.

It is the most common form of artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities.

In technical usage, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp.

Compact lamps are commonly called light bulbs; for example, the incandescent light bulb.

Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass or plastic, which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture.

The electrical connection to the socket may be made with a screw-thread base, two metal pins, two metal caps or a bayonet cap.