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...object which emits light because it is hot is called "incandescent." A flashlight bulb is an incandescent source of (light...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...flashlight battery is weak, the (filament) in the bulb may still glow, but with only a dull red color...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...important parts of a flashlight are the battery and the bulb. When we "turn on" a flashlight, we close a switch which connects the battery with the (bulb...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...When we turn on a flashlight, an electric current flows through the fine wire in the (bulb) and causes it to grow...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...descended from the plane, was the quality of the metal ladder-flimsy, antique, short by half a step, and made of some queer light metal, ornately engraved. Dozens of times later, I saw similar ladders. The Russians can build a ten-billion electron-volt cyclotron, but a good simple flashlight seems beyond them. Priority goes to what counts; nobody cares if you break a leg hoisting yourself on an airplane, but to put an artificial moon in the sky is something else again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: GUNTHER INSIDE RUSSIA | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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