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Sentence Examples A web cam with its inactive little red light bulb sat next to the Notebook, its cord tailing out from its back. Then an electrical wire is run along the rod to the light bulb where it is soldered to the side and the bottom of the base. Now remember, this is in skinflint New Hampshire, where a request for money for a new light bulb can cause a knockdown, drag-out debate. Some may opt for a very plain style with only a ladder for access and a lonely light bulb for company. The dim light bulb hung lifelessly above their heads, and the wall paper covered only half the wall and the other half stood bare and uncovered. My blood cells are a lot more like a cell from spirulina blue-green algae than they are like a flame, or a light bulb, or a sun. That candle we see lighting up the actress's face is surely a real candle, not a cleverly designed candlestick with hidden light bulb. Don't embark on any ambitious DIY projects until you have seen how much mess he makes changing a light bulb. A Chinese lantern covered the one light bulb that dangled from the ceiling in the center of the room. So to replace a traditional 60-watt bulb, look for a compact fluorescent light bulb that is about 15 watts. He was changing a light bulb and she gave him a peck on the cheek, and he was in shock. He has to research the history of the light bulb, the layout of the building, the different kinds of bulbs, etc. Adjust the voltage to the light bulb using the slider and observe the electric current through the bulb as plotted on the graph at right. It glimmers at barely 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cooler than a light bulb filament. Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments. This led to them passing the notes around the room, and finally, a shimmer of light was in the light bulb. An incandescent light bulb contains a thin wire filament that glows hot when an electric current is run through it. Then it clicked and it was as if a light bulb had suddenly flashed on in my head. Some scientific breakthroughs, like Edison's invention of the light bulb, are purposeful and planned. As you know from replacing light bulbs, there is a large, thin, frosted glass envelope in the familiar light bulb shape. Show More Sentences I wake up tied to a straight-backed chair sitting in an empty room under the harsh glow of a naked light bulb. The British Courts stood by their patent award for the light bulb to Swan, and Edison lost the suit. When using very high bromide developers, it may be necessary to use a 200 to 250 watt light bulb in order to get good reversal effects. It is topped by a stumpy, Lego-like lighthouse where a keeper and his family lived until 1987, when they were replaced by a light bulb. Although this is optional, I highly recommend it because this helps make the light bulb less fragile. This is a man whose life and soul are lit up by a single naked light bulb that he parsimoniously carries between office and home. She stared right into her ceiling, challenging the naked light bulb to look at her. You come out the other, and it's like a light bulb has flashed inside your head. There really isn't much to recycle in the ordinary light bulb, even the combination of glass and metal doesn't amount to beans. In Missouri state employees were unscrewing every third light bulb to cut energy bills. Familiarize yourself with the components of a modern light bulb using the diagram below. Then his face cleared, and he looked up with a broad smile on his face, as though a light bulb had flicked on in his mind. The inefficient standard light bulb could be phased out within three years to save up to 800,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. It is also probably fair to say that Edison did produce the first commercially viable light bulb. A U.S. Senate committee is working on a proposal that would phase out the light bulb in 10 years. The last remaining light bulb in my bedroom light fixture is about to die and I'm not tall enough to reach it. A structure is provided which is used for a rectangularly arrayed miniature light bulb series. Suddenly aglow under the light bulb of an idea dancing above his head, Paul Reinhard turned to his typing machine. There's a light bulb glowing over my head that is brighter than the flaring of a sour gas well. A regular incandescent light bulb relies on the fact that all bodies with a temperature greater than absolute zero emit radiation. Show More Sentences The light bulb from the ceiling caused the shadows to be thrown at an odd angle to the left. On August 26 he returned to his laboratory in New Jersey, and the following day began his experiments on his electric light bulb. Canadians invented the world's FIRST: light bulb, garbage bag, gas mask and chocolate bar, to name just a few. When I came aboard the only place I could find to sling my hammock was over a mess table with a light bulb shining at my feet. The phonograph, the motion picture projector, color television, the videotape recorder, the electric guitar, and the light bulb. White balance options: auto, sun light, cloudy, light bulb, florescent light. Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb. The panels can generate 100 watts, enough to power a light bulb. One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory. The Dark Crosslight can be used with a regular light blub or a low energy light bulb. The 10W LED light bulb is equipped with E27 standard lamp holder and built-in driver. Should the light bulb be broken, glass fragments will spill out if the lamp is pulled out too quickly. Fans with a night light must have a light bulb that consumes 4 watts or less. The incandescent light bulb was the first light to be generated by means of electrical heat. The complainant considered the joke, which was a variation on the light bulb joke, to be anti-Semitic. In 2007, the Bush administration signed a measure that would finally bring the light bulb into the 21st century. Did you have a sort of light bulb moment when you knew you wanted to be an actor? Natural light from an incandescent source such as a common light bulb, or the Sun, is unpolarized. For example, in Poland, a cheap energy-saving light bulb used to cost around 5 zlotys. If the light bulb does not contain mercury, Box 2 of the eco-label may state that the lightbulb does not contain mercury. Show More Sentences When we say a light bulb is 60 watts, we mean that the bulb converts 60 joules of electrical energy to 60 joules of heat and light every second. You will have to provide an artificial heat source, such as an infra-red lamp, a light bulb painted red, or an oil or gas lamp. The relative size and shape of a compact fluorescent light bulb compared to a conventional incandescent lamp shall be indicated. Observed electrical connectors on both tail light bulb holders melting and smoldering. This light bulb uses special PC plastics, so it will not crack easily and is shockproof. Similar in shape to an ordinary light bulb, its 3 photometric measurement fields guarantee reliable operation in any screw-in position. Movable lens, 1 light bulb, and below-baseboard mechanism permanently attached to the signal. Since then, for nearly 130 years the light bulb has carried civilization to every nook and cranny of the globe. Although the osmium he used was too rare for general use, his improvement paved the way for the tungsten filament and the modern light bulb. An incandescent black light bulb is similar to a normal household light bulb, but it uses light filters to absorb the light from the heated filament. It was as white and alive as the filament of a light bulb viewed close up. Today's fastest PC microprocessors consume about 100 watts of electrical power, the same as a bright light bulb. The report shall state the energy efficiency, lifetime and lumen maintenance of the light bulb. It was told as one of a series of light bulb jokes and did not include any mention of guilt or of the mother making her child feel guilty. If a police officer comes into the school and says something, maybe a light bulb will come on and they will pick up something. The change in the field induces another current in the lower core, and makes the light bulb flash again. There are many different levels of intervention, from simply using a less-energy-consuming light bulb to installing a solar energy system. Stretching in the filament indicates that the light bulb in the red HYD warning light was on at the time of impact. The best and most well-known example is the energy-saving light bulb, which has many environmental advantages but contains mercury. Apart from a flickering light bulb, the only requirements are know-how and a long time. Show More Sentences The man who started it all was Thomas A. Edison, the inventor of the electric light bulb. It took Thomas Edison many years and thousands of failed attempts to invent the light bulb. It was sleek and aerodynamic, shone in his room like a light bulb. What we can buy is a compact fluorescent bulb that only uses 20 watts of electricity and produces 1,000 lumens, the same as a 100-watt light bulb. Track lighting is one of the most popular choices among art retailers, especially those who incorporate standard fixtures that can accommodate any type of screw-in light bulb. She hauled open the huge sliding barn door, and walked to the feed bin in the dark, reminding herself to get her dad to replace the burned-out light bulb. The naked red light bulb gave the room an eerie surreal aura. The only illumination is a single naked light bulb hung in the middle. Events through the week include a light bulb amnesty at which normal light bulbs can be exchanged for low-energy bulbs donated by Yorkshire Electricity. Whether it's changing a light bulb or putting up a shelf, there's a certain amount of satisfaction to be had in fixing something around the house. However, lighting with means of gas would be short lived because the invention of the electric light bulb would be soon to follow. Old standbys like walkathons, spellathons, and candy and light bulb sales are common. One of the problems of the standard electric light bulb is filament notching due to evaporation of the filament. A very small amount of water vapor inside a light bulb can significantly affect lamp darkening. In 1875 Swan returned to consider the problem of the light bulb with the aid of a better vacuum and a carbonized thread as a filament. While searching for a better filament for his light bulb, Swan inadvertently made another advance. Lewis Howard Latimer invented an improvement for the incandescent light bulb. He also invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of incandescent light bulb. Even though it needs only the power of about a 30 watts light bulb, the LIDAR can shoot up to 20 kilometres high into the martian atmosphere, which is nearly twice the height that passenger jets fly here on Earth. A light bulb went off in my head as I had an incredible idea for a beauty product. Show More Sentences Being an extra big light bulb and eating with two cousins and their husband and fiance. He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb before its invention by the American Thomas Edison. At the time, the bill, including the provisions about light bulb efficiency, enjoyed widespread bi-partisan support. Like everything in Washington these days, even the humble light bulb has become the subject of a partisan fight. House Republicans view the light bulb law as the federal government repressing the market. Do not touch the new light bulb of the photometer to avoid fingerprints. The next day the Marketing Committee discussed the Think Tank with the full Board of Directors and it was like a collective light bulb was turned on. A low-intensity light bulb will be fitted. The light bulb manufactured in the years between 1890 and 1920 was composed of a glass globe around a carbon filament like that used in the first bulbs. Had this standard been in place, we never would have had the light bulb. We won the contract and when I found myself arguing with the chair of the board of directors that it made sense for Atira to do property management as well, a light bulb went on. Nearly 130 years after Thomas Edison invented it, the world may be on the brink of saying 'thank you, and goodnight' to the incandescent electric light bulb. I think what happened is that this went to headquarters and a light bulb went on and the organizers were salivating about the potential for targeting their message to voters. As you know, brooders range from a simple box with a light bulb to fancy metal bins with propane fueled burners. The light bulb filaments in the remaining caution and warning lights were not stretched, and all were considered to have been off at the time of impact. The light bulb analysis showed that the low-fuel light and the right boost pump annunciator light might have been illuminated at the time of the crash. In a dark house with a single exposed light bulb for the piano and stage, Sondheim began to improvise words and music as Robbins slinked across the stage like a bad striptease artist. She was rechecking the position of the door, preparing her exit, when she saw an assortment of foot-high paintings propped on a shelf, under a bare light bulb. The Edison Effect was an accidental byproduct of his invention of the light bulb. White balance type: auto, sunny, cloudy, light bulb, flourescent light. Show More Sentences Did you know... after they patented and tested the light bulb in 1874, two Canadian inventors sold the patent to Thomas Edison, and the rest is history. In 1850 Swan began working on a light bulb using carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. Considerably better lighting effects are achieved because our orange beacon flasher unlike the classic beacon light works with bright stroboscope flash tubes and not with a light bulb. It glowed like a light bulb, red and swollen from the same disfiguring form of rosacea, called rhinophyma, that afflicted J. P. Morgan and W. C. Fields, advanced to a stage one seldom sees in public these days. His many inventions include the light bulb and the phonograph. People swarmed over the last tram taking away bits of coachwork and every electric light bulb as souvenirs. The three tree-huggers who invented the world's most energy efficient light bulb have done it again. Thirty baying women, in various stages of orangeness, sit behind desks, a lit up light bulb on each one. At 16, she left and worked in a factory and later as a cinema usherette and a light bulb seller. It's like a light bulb hooked up to a nuclear power plant. The lamp box is a light bulb in a tin can. A typical example is a tungsten light bulb. In 1838, Belgian lithographer Marcellin Jobard invented an incandescent light bulb with a vacuum atmosphere using a carbon filament. Starr acquired a patent for his incandescent light bulb involving the use of carbon filaments. The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century. The light bulb was one of the most important inventions of the 19th century. In this area Chris can expect to see marine wildlife such as multi-coloured sea slugs, light bulb sea squirts, sun stars, corals, crustaceans, seals, and diving sea birds. Home to the pretty cuckoo wrasse, the fearsome-looking wolf fish, deeplet sea anemones, light bulb sea squirts, edible sea urchins and bottle brush hydroids. He fears the dark, so he invented a longer-lasting light bulb. They look very much like a traditional light bulb and are very efficient. Examples from Classical Literature He rested for a while, studying the light bulb which hung in the center of the room. The electric light bulb on an extension cord, that was mentioned in connection with earache, is very comforting in this condition. If New Mexico were to call, a light bulb would flash the signal in Tom's quarters, and he would telephone the house. I might as well have worried about the effect of a light bulb on the sun. The janitor may have stood on it to fix a light bulb or something. For every light bulb, television and world wide web there is soda water, the reflecting telescope and synthetic dye. Find more words! 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