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Instead of the old unwieldy magnesium powder pan, the new flashlamp looks like an ordinary incandescent bulb. Filled with oxygen, the bulb contains a specially coated filament and crumpled sheets of thin aluminum foil. When the circuit is closed the filament lights, ignites the aluminum foil. Each bulb is used only once. The lamp can be plugged in on an ordinary 115-volt alternating current circuit, or can be used with batteries. The flash lasts only 1/100 sec. Being completely self-contained, offering no fire hazard, the flashlamp can be used where flashlight photographs have never been taken before...
...Mass, a crowd gathered to watch a man who, while washing windows on the ninth floor, was dancing a jig. Arrested for being a nuisance, the window washer, one James O'Reilly, asserted that he could also eat razor blades or glass, chewed and swallowed an electric light bulb to prove...
...fish bait, never before seen by man in their natural state. So great was the depth that only the blue and violet rays of the sun's spectrum penetrated, yet the submarine scene seemed brilliantly lighted compared to the gloom of the diving chamber when its electric bulb was turned...
...Kodak's* golden jubilee Mr. Eastman obtained the same sort of ungrudged well-deserved publicity as his friend Thomas Alva Edison had received for the golden jubilee of the electric light bulb (TIME, May 27). Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane wrote: "Ruskin, who had worked to reproduce . . . [the] architecture in Venice . . . hailed the discovery of photography as a most important gift to education." Grace Goodhue Coolidge announced: "Instead of coming together to play games and eat ice cream and cake . . . each guest [at the Eastman birthday party] is to receive a golden anniversary camera and film by means of which...
...Wickford, England, John Andrew put an electric bulb on the seat of a chair, sat in the chair, died of fright when the bulb exploded with a loud...