Edison tried 1, 600 materials before settling on carbonized cotton fiber as the filament for his electric light bulb.
In 1880, Wabash, Indiana became the first town to be completely illuminated by electric light.
Electric Light Orchestra canceled a planned North American tour because of poor advance sales.
Tungsten, as a material, was much used in the filaments of incandescent electric light bulbs.
The electric light bulb has made darkness optional, eliminating the enforced idleness that used to begin at sunset.
Walsh connected him with Jeff Lynne, whom Mr. Walsh knew when Mr. Lynne led the Electric Light Orchestra.
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Yet nobody made a move to get up from the table or to turn on an electric light.
More than one third of all business downtime results from power quality problems, according to Electric Light and Power magazine.
After all, it spawned George and Robert Stephenson's railway engines, Joseph Swan's electric light bulbs, and Sir Charles Parson's steam turbines and electricity generators.
Environmental groups like the Solar Electric Light Fund, which brings green energy to impoverished areas of the globe, have been featured on Philanthroper.
Similarly, Thomas Edison and his Muckers changed our world with the phonograph when he was just thirty years old, and the incandescent electric light-bulb at thirty-two.
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Both Edison and Swan invented the electric light bulb (or rather, a workable one) at about the same time, Swan beating Edison to a patent by a year.
The Solar Electric Light Fund is demonstrating that you can provide poor families with solar power for roughly the same cost as old standbys such as kerosene and candles.
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The introduction of electric light-railway systems might bear some of the transportation load, but these need to be built from scratch, and within the context of a completely new social infrastructure.
When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.
The 300, 000 residents here chose street names such as Avenida Santa Teresa, in reference to the neighborhood's largest church, and Calle la Luz because it was in the first area in the country that had electric light.
General Electric gets light bulb regulations crafted that favor their particular technologies.
These involved a loud tone followed by a light electric shock to the foot.
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Several companies have already started field-testing battery-electric passenger cars and light trucks for use in their fleets.
These implants convert light into electric current that stimulates local retinal neurons, which then send signals to the brain, meaning no wires are necessary to stimulate the retina.
Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.
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Agents seized calculators, pens, telephone jacks, light bulbs, and electric power strips that had been equipped with bugs.
But, at a time when petrol costs less than bottled water, it will take all Mr Iacocca's considerable salesmanship to persuade American drivers to swap their gas-guzzlers for a light and environmentally friendly electric buggy.
Should we avoid talking on cell phones, place our beds far away from electric outlets, or stop using CFL light bulbs?
The product's OLED device, jointly developed between Mitsubishi Electric and Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, creates light by a process of electro-luminescence (EL).
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And last spring, the company redesigned the oven, replacing the traditional light bulb used for baking with an electric heating element, then switching the oven's door from the side to the front.
Pistachios are not actually electric green, and neither are kiwis, while cantaloupes are light orange, not bright orange.
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