Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refining the details of his movie's release. "Anyone who would make films and ignore the final phase?how it's projected on the screen, the speakers in the theater?is not realistic," he says. "You can put in years and have the entire thing erased by a light bulb. As the producer, I have nobody to blame but myself if the movie doesn't come...
...Orthodox Jewish immigrant umbrella maker, Freeman grew up in Chattanooga and still remembers when the city was ravaged by floods before TVA dams tamed the Tennessee River. Says he: "If you were a member of the generation that saw the light bulb replace a kerosene lantern and benefited from the blessing of electric pumps that drew the water from the well, so you didn't have to carry water from the well, then you really appreciated what the TVA had accomplished." Recalls Freeman: "TVA and religion were the two biggest things in my life...
...company, in the 1969 Mack heavy duty rescue truck, was called to a home in East Cambridge on a report that a woman was injured. Upon arrival the activity became intense--going into the house, down the stairs to the basement with the dirt floor, the one bare bulb, the police with flashlights and the bloody bodies...
Wrapped in sweaters and quilts against the cold because of a coal strike, I am reading about the computer society under one light bulb. Doesn't it seem ludicrous that scientists are developing machines to take over more of our lives while we in Ohio are regretting how much we are already dependent on electricity and machines for our wellbeing...
Brodeur traces the growth of microwave technology from its inception as part of a burgeoning communications revolution which began with Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb. Radio wave communication became a reality in 1915 with the invention of wireless telegraphy or "radio," and since then, inventors and scientists and engineers have honed their skills in radio wave technology, eventually learning to cram waves into the smallest possible frequencies technology could manage...