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...possibilities of electricity and electronics have already been widely apparent both in war and industry (TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.). Last week Westinghouse gave an especially striking illumination of the future of heating and lighting. In a Manhattan show for architects and designers, Westinghouse engineers displayed: > Brilliant fluorescent lamps, not attached to any wiring, carried freely around the room. The energy that lit these wireless lamps came from a high-frequency radio beam generated by a physician's ordinary diathermy set. (Westinghouse admitted that this was a stunt, said that wireless electric power might not be commercially practical...
...compact new sun lamp, combining warming infrared and tanning ultraviolet rays, that needs no reflector, can be plugged into any electric outlet...
...watt mercury vapor lamp (so hot that it must be water-cooled) which is one-fifth as bright as the sun at its surface. It could be used for lighting factories, large halls, athletic fields...
...Edison did not invent the electric lamp (an Englishman named Sir Joseph Swan produced an incandescent lamp in 1860-19 years before Edison...
Latest name for flashing light, alias "blinding bulb." Now the pensive Mr. Lange comes up with "flickering filament.". . Bad Habits Department: K. W. Deadler's insistence on reserving his timid and apologetic queries until just on the hour when it's time for the smoking lamp to light...