Word: lamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bland orange-yellow of sodium-vapor lamps now lights hundreds of miles of U. S. highway. Until recently it has been a ticklish and costly job to get the sodium into the highly evacuated lamps without contamination. Last week General Electric Co.'s laboratories at Schenectady announced a clever new way of filling the bulbs. The sodium is packaged in tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp...
...dare to do anything against Germany, because we have in your country 500,000 German reservists who will rise in arms against your Government if you dare to make a move against Germany.' Well, I told him that that might be so, but that we had 501,000 lamp posts in this country, and that that was where the reservists would be hanging the day after they tried to rise...
...conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet light from a Westinghouse lamp...
...curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow." But when the thunder rolled as he made the incision, he reflected: "A bit previous, the applause." He finished, triumphant-then saw that the child seemed to have stopped breathing...
...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...