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A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, headlamp is the term for the device itself and headlight is the term for the beam of light produced and distributed by the device.
A motor scooter's front with an impractical number and variety of headlamps, added for decorative purposes and characteristic of Mod culture
Ford Model T with acetylene gas headlamps
One of the first optical headlamp lenses, the Corning Conaphore. Selective yellow "Noviol" glass version shown.
1929 Cord L-29 with Woodlite headlamps U.S. patent 1,679,108
A parabolic aluminized reflector lamp is a type of electric lamp that is widely used in commercial, residential, and transportation illumination. It produces a highly directional beam. Usage includes theatrical lighting, locomotive headlamps, aircraft landing lights, and residential and commercial recessed lights.
A parabolic aluminized reflector luminaire
20 PAR cans
Sealed beam PAR lamp. When the lamp burns out or breaks, the whole assembly must be replaced.
Two Mercedes-Benz SLs: right with US-spec sealed-beam headlamps; left with European-spec composite replaceable-bulb headlamps