Streamlight
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 Streamlight Sidewinder flashlight | |
| Founded | 1973[‡ 1] |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Website | www |
Streamlight is a company located in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, United States, that manufactures flashlights powered by various-sized rechargeable and disposable batteries.[‡ 2]
Their product line features hand-held and weapon-mountable lights[‡ 3] as well as a right angle light used by firefighters on their turnout gear.[‡ 4] Several of their products utilize dual sources, combining the long life of LED lamps with more powerful but shorter-lived conventional incandescent lamps. They also produce a series of Laser Illuminators such as the one of their newest models, the TLR-8, which is a combination LED weapon light and laser.[‡ 5]
In the early 1970s, NASA tasked a team of engineers from Fairfield, New Jersey[which?] with realizing a solar simulator to simulate sunlight outside the filtration of the atmosphere. Streamlight used the team's research to develop a handheld halogen-lit 1 million candlepower (981,000 candela) searchlight, creating a beam extending past a mile,[1] as a commercial spin-off of technology developed by Johnson Space Center for NASA as part of the Apollo program.[2][3][‡ 2] It was marketed to military and law enforcement.[1]
After the handheld design was finalised, the company was moved to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania by a private investor.[‡ 2] In 1977, the headquarters was moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania. In 2001, the company moved to Eagleville, Pennsylvania.[‡ 2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "A History of Streamlight and Its Growth in the LE Market". Police Magazine. March 30, 2023. Retrieved July 14, 2026.
- ↑ High Intensity Lights (PDF). Spinoff (Report). NASA Johnson Space Center. 1983. pp. 106–107.
- ↑ Hand-held searchlight (PDF). Spinoff (Report). NASA Johnson Space Center. 1976. p. 90.
Primary sources
In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):
- ↑ "About Us". Streamlight.
- 1 2 3 4 "Backgrounder". Streamlight. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Hand-held and weapon mount lights". Streamlight. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Knucklehead Spot" (PDF). Streamlight. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
- ↑ "TLR-8 combination LED weapon light and laser". Streamlight. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
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