The likelyhood is if you work at a desk you’ll have one of these lamps. Or you will at some point in your life have worked with or owned one of the many variations of the Anglepoise. I wrote this article after discovering the original patent for the lamp, the design of which is based on the articulation of a human arm, on the excellent Patent Office website in the UK.
This story on George Carwadine the inventor of the iconic Anglepoise appeared in Beomag, The Bang & Olufsen Magazine in Australia in 2004: Download Anglepoise.pdf (10375.4K)