streamlight

{{Short description|American flashlight manufacturer}}

{{Notability|org|date=July 2022}}

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| image = File:USMC-090707-M-9234B-011.jpg

| image_caption = Streamlight Sidewinder flashlight

| hq_location_city = Eagleville, Pennsylvania

| hq_location_country = United States

| foundation = {{start date and age|1973}}{{cite web | url=https://www.streamlight.com/community/streamlight-family/about-us | title=About Us }}

}}

Streamlight is a company located in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, United States, that manufactures flashlights powered by various rechargeable and disposable batteries.

Their product line features hand-held and weapon-mountable lights{{cite web |url= http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/product-selector.html |title= Hand-held and weapon mount lights |publisher= Streamlight |accessdate= September 19, 2016 }} as well as a right angle light used by firefighters on their turnout gear.{{cite web |url= http://www.streamlight.com/static/document/data_sheet/knuckleheadspotwclip.pdf |title= Knucklehead Spot |publisher= Streamlight |accessdate= September 19, 2016 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/product/product.html?pid=277 |title= TLR-8 combination LED weapon light and laser |publisher= Streamlight |accessdate= September 19, 2016 }}

Streamlight developed a handheld 1 million candlepower (981,000 candela) searchlight as a commercial spin-off of technology developed by Johnson Space Center for NASA as part of the Apollo program.{{cite report |url= https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030001731.pdf |title= High Intensity Lights |publisher= NASA Johnson Space Center |journal= Spinoff |year= 1983 |pages= 106–107}}{{cite report |url= https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030005496.pdf |title= Hand-held searchlight |publisher= NASA Johnson Space Center |journal= Spinoff |year= 1976 |pages= 90}}{{cite web |url= http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/news/backgrounder130122.html |title= Backgrounder |publisher= Streamlight |accessdate= September 19, 2016 }}

After the handheld design was perfected, the company was moved to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania by a private investor. In 1977, the headquarters was moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania. In 2001, the company moved to Eagleville, Pennsylvania.