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...pigeons burst skyward into the midday Yokohama sun, released in celebration from their papier-mâché prison. Bands blared and confetti swirled over the waters of Tokyo Bay. Japan, the world's biggest shipbuilder, was launching the world's biggest ship: the Tokyo Maru, a bulb-nosed 1,006-ft.-long, 150,000-ton oil tanker...
...anyone reading a book on a hot night has discovered, a light bulb puts out a lot of heat. When bunched together in overhead banks, as they are in most modern office buildings, lights can make interior rooms too hot - even in the dead of winter...
...lots of fluorescent lights, all of which have built-in ducts that trap over 60% of their heat.* The ducts also collect the heat produced by the students' bodies-which is surprisingly high. One average-size incumbent 15-year-old throws off more heat than a 100-watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated by fans, this heat from the lighting and the building's occupants has proved more than enough to keep the building warm even when the outside thermometer reads 18°. The excess is transferred to heating coils in two 12,000-gal. water tanks. When...
...this definitive new biography by Dr. L. Pearce Williams, who teaches the history of science at Cornell, Faraday is described with affection and his work with impressive lucidity. Anybody who knows enough about electricity to screw in a light bulb can follow most of Faraday's experiments as they are described in this book, and the occasional puzzling paragraph can only intensify the suspense of a scientific epic that is also a harrowing intellectual thriller...
...last sale of light bulbs was almost a matter of public order, inspite of the fact that you had to present the old light bulb in order...