Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident of the Manhattan meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers last week (see below) was Dr. Matthew Luckiesh's presentation of his new General Electric sunlight lamp. The bulb is 6¼ in. long. It contains two separated tungsten electrodes, a little pool of mercury, a tungsten filament. When the electric switch is turned, current heats the filament to incandescence. The heat vaporizes the mercury. The mercury vapor diffuses between the electrodes and permits the current to jump across as a brilliant mercury arc. The combined light of arc, electrodes and filament appears much whiter than Mazda...
...Salamanca, Spain, a bull escaped from the bullring, ran down the street, climbed a flight of winding steps into the City Hall, gored the doorman, stamped on tables and chairs, charged into the street, gored two persons, was killed by a young man who climbed a lamp-post and fell on the bull's neck with a razor...