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    Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene...
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  • In the story, the husband secretly dims and brightens the indoor gas-powered lighting but insists his wife is imagining it, making her think she is going...
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    Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Neon lights are a type of cold...
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    half centuries before LED lighting emerged as the new "gold standard", cities and towns across America relied on oil, coal gas, carbon arc, incandescent...
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    Street light (redirect from Street lighting)
    outside in a public display of gas lighting, the lights astonishing the local population. The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall...
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    lamp that is the gas-discharge lamp in street lighting. In operation, some of the electrons are forced to leave the atoms of the gas near the anode by...
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    throughout Europe. The gas mantle remained an important part of street lighting until the widespread introduction of electric lighting in the early 1900s...
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    lamp. 1792 William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting and probably produced the first gas light in this year. 1800 French watchmaker Bernard...
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    1859, when crude oil was discovered and the petroleum industry arose. Gas lighting was economical enough to power street lights in major cities starting...
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  • the United Kingdom and Australia—almost all gas for fuel and lighting was manufactured from coal. Town gas was supplied to households via municipally owned...
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    external dimmers. DJ lighting Gas lighting High-key lighting Low-key lighting Tree lights [1][permanent dead link], Stage Lighting Design Principle and...
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    In 1895, Willson sold his patent to Union Carbide. Domestic lighting with acetylene gas was introduced circa 1894 and bicycle lamps from 1896. In France...
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    carbide lamp, gas lighting, kerosene lamp, oil lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas mantle Safety lamps: Davy lamp and Geordie lamp Gas-discharge...
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    commercial lighting, for portable lighting such as table lamps, car headlamps, and flashlights, and for decorative and advertising lighting. Incandescent...
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  • urbanized region lit by or formerly lit by gas lighting using gas lamps for street lighting lamps. Gaslight District or gas-light district may also refer to: Gaslight...
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    manufactured gas in the early 19th century was for gas lighting, as a convenient substitute for candles and oil lamps in the home. Gas lighting became the...
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    Minckelers had already published on coal gasification and gas lighting in 1784, and had used gas to light his auditorium at the University of Leuven from...
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    LED lamp (redirect from LED lighting)
    switching on and off does not reduce life expectancy as with fluorescent lighting. Light output decreases gradually over the lifetime of the LED. Some LED...
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  • water gas process by which large amounts of hydrogen gas could be generated for residential and commercial use in heating and lighting. This gas provided...
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    Lamplighter (category Street lighting)
    and gas lighting. Public street lighting was developed in the 16th century. During this time, lamplighters toured public streets at dusk, lighting outdoor...
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    excessive artificial lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term light pollution refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting sources, during the...
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    well as in vehicles. Before electric lighting became common in the early 20th century, people used candles, gas lights, oil lamps, and fires. In 1799–1800...
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    A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light. The arc discharge is generally confined...
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  • source Gas lighting – Type of artificial light Gas mantle – Device for generating bright light when heated by a flame Kerosene lamp – Type of lighting device...
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    manufactured gas was introduced to the United States for lighting. Larger American cities in the east built gasworks, but the west had no gas industry. San...
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    was gas lighting, which enabled the widespread adoption of streetlamps and the illumination of buildings in towns. Fuel gas was also used in gas burners...
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    process of making gas mantles and other products for turning the flames of artificially-produced gases (initially hydrogen, later coal gas, paraffin, or other...
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    California Gas Company, installed 43 new gas lamps along Main Street. The gas lighting business was run by five entrepreneurs who manufactured the gas from...
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    a gas chamber. Vapor from the chamber burns, heating a mantle to incandescence and also providing heat. Kerosene lamps are widely used for lighting in...
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    purification of the gas (removal of sulphur, ammonia, and heavy hydrocarbons), and its storage and distribution. The first gas lighting utilities were established...
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