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NEON In 1910 a French scientist named Georges Claude applied an electrical charge to a tube filled with neon gas (as opposed to a filament in a vacuum) and created a new kind of illumination. Car dealers did the rest...
Edison's goal was to find an incandescent light that glowed at a steady rate, a clean, pure force. He added a filament to a vacuum. I know exactly how he felt...
Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief William T. Rose said a ballast--a filament which runs through fluorescent lights--had worn out and begun to smoke. "The ballast began to heat up and emit a burning odor," he said...
...modified money will contain a polyester filament imprinted with minuscule lettering and running from the top of the bill to the bottom. The thread on a $100 bill, for example, will bear the lettering USA 100. Visible only if held up to direct light, the thread cannot be duplicated by copiers, which use reflected light. The new currency will also contain microengravings around the portrait. First to be circulated will be the $100 denomination, which should appear by late summer. The bureau is starting with big bills, says spokesman Ira Polikoff, "because those are the most susceptible to counterfeiting." Next...
Ever watching calories, Angelenos love to share, a practice considered cheap in New York. A typical L.A. lunch features the inevitable salad, followed by a split portion of pasta (most likely angel hair, a mere filament of carbohydrate that is a California obsession and a chef's nightmare because it overcooks so readily). Orso, a Manhattan theater-district hangout, was determined to follow its pattern of one menu of trattoria-style Italian fare throughout the day and evening when it opened in Beverly Hills two years ago. The plan failed. Too many customers wanted a feather-light lunch...