Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naples. Italy, 45-year-old Petronio Morandi, eating grapes while he read a newspaper, picked up a small electric light bulb, swallowed it whole...
Other projects undertaken by the Film Service, is the making of high speed and unperceptively slow speed films. This makes it possible to observe the breaking of a bulb as well as the growing of a plant. At present it is making a print for the Harvard Forest as well as the fatigue laboratories...
...toothbrush with a rubber bulb on the handle, for rinsing the teeth while brushing...
Some examples of pictures which Riggs has taken with his machine are: a golf ball compressed by a golf club; and a bullet stopped in flight as it shatters a bulb. Despite the terrific speeds of the objects, the pictures show remarkably little distortion, Riggs said...
Although his claim that he traversed more of the intercontinental land route than any of his predecessors still needs official corroboration, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. which supplied most of his gas and oil, was delighted to tender him a banquet. Obligingly, he unscrewed a light bulb from the chandelier, smashed it to bits, put the glass in his mouth, took a draught of water. Of the hardships suffered by him and his late companions, he said piously, "I knew we would not all die because at the mountain top I laid my hands on the feet...