Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recording apparatus was received at the H. A. A. yesterday. When installed it will consist of a series of short tapes stretched from posts across each lane. Each tape is connected by underground pipes with a row of electric lights beside the track. As each tape is broken a bulb is flashed for the corresponding lane, indicating exactly the order of the finishes...
...injunction against the Tomadelli Electronic Light Corporation, to restrain it from selling any more of its stock to the public. The company was formed to promote an alleged invention known as "Bottled Sunlight" (TIME, March 10, SCIENCE). Concretely, this was claimed to consist of a new sort of incandescent bulb which apparently did not need electric current to make it shine. When produced in court, however, sample bulbs had no sparkle in them whatsoever, and the only brilliant feature of the company seemed to be the manner in which it sold stock of doubtful value to the public...
...light rays, it gives off an electric current), French engineers of the military wireless service, General Gustave Ferie, M. Jouaust and Major Mesny, amplified waves from Capella, the blue star of the first magnitude in the constellation Auriga, into audible sound waves. The transformation was effected by a bulb of four electrodes, with much higher potential than the audion bulbs commonly used in wireless. The star is 71 light years (over 400 trillion miles) from the earth. The sounds were audible over a telephone to a considerable distance. The report was presented to the French Academy of Science...
...largest electric light bulb ever made-22 in. high and 15 in. in diameter-side by side with the smallest, no larger than a grain of rice, was exhibited at the Sprague plant of the General Electric Company, East Orange, N. J. The monster bulb is of 150,000 candlepower and requires four large cables to supply the 30,000 watts it burns. Four long strips of heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman...
...stock market, as is well known, usually acts as a thermometer and barometer to general business conditions. The questions now asked are: Is someone putting a lighted match under the thermometer bulb...