Lampette
The Lampette was a brand of small electric high-intensity telescoping desk lamps that was designed and distributed by Koch Creations but manufactured by various subcontractors from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. History According to an article published in the June 1965 issue of the Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, smaller high-intensity lamps for personal use only came to the market in 1963, after a "professional work light", invented in 1959 by Jay Monroe and then manufactured by Monroe's Tensor Corporation in 1960. The work light was marketed as the "Tensor lamp", and was initially sold to jewelers, watchmakers, and other similar craftsmen. Due to Monroe's and Tensor's success in selling their original type of small high-intensity lamps, other companies began to design and sell similar types of lamps to the general public by 1963. One of the primary competitors of the "Tensor Lamp" throughout the 60s was the Koch Creations "Lampette", which had a similar design and function. They were compared often by consumers, as seen in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which discusses the measure of brightness relative to the price of high intensity lamps. It states that a $19.95 Lampette model had a less impressive range of brightness in