February 22 2021 Suggested reading brought to you by Sunlan Lighting: Not your Grandmother's Lighting store Sunlan Lighting is not your Grandmothers or even your Mothers Lighting store. Grandmother used standard incandescent bulbs. Many industrial companies used 500-, 750-, 1000-, and 1500-watt bulbs in the warehouses. Schools and stores used 250-to-500-watt bulbs in fixtures. There were three-way 100/200/300 -watt bulbs. All these bulbs looked like a standard 60 -watt bulb, except they were much larger. Most homes used 25-40-60-75 or 100 watt bulbs in fixtures. In the 50s, many schools and stores Your Mother visited used long fluorescents. As the development of fluorescent lamps continued, new sizes, shapes, and colors were created. The colors were developed to appear like different times of the day. The Kelvins, the numerical names of colors, were given identity names used constantly industry wide. Warm white was 3000Kelvin, Cool White - 4100 Kelvin and Day Light - 6500 Kelvin. Most of the lamps had a Color Rendering Index -CRI- between 60 to 70% of natural Sunshine.