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Example sentences for "electric lighting"

  • They gained the necessary experience with electric tramways and in electric lighting.

  • This delay was a serious handicap not only to electric lighting but to the business of British electrical manufacturing, as there was, comparatively speaking, no demand for electrical plant for over six years.

  • Farmers who conduct business in the usual way will need a three-horsepower engine if they contemplate adding an electric lighting system to the farm equipment.

  • Electric lighting on the farm is the most spectacular, if not the most interesting result of electric generation in the country.

  • This feature of the subject was somewhat overtaxed by talkative salesmen representing some of the pioneer manufacturers of electric lighting plants, but the business has steadied down.

  • Not many miles from Chicago there is an electric lighting plant on a dairy farm that is giving satisfaction.

  • In the early days of electric lighting a good many experiments were tried with threads of platinum, but without success.

  • Gas-making is now, in spite of the competition of electric lighting, so important an industry that we shall do well to glance at the processes which it includes.

  • This form, known commercially as the GEM lamp, fills an important place in electric lighting.

  • This is intended to adapt the standard lamp base to a socket that was formerly in use on the Thompson-Houston system of electric lighting.

  • The development of the high-efficiency incandescent lamp has brought about a revolution in electric lighting.

  • We shall now show you how electricity produces magnetism, and, when we come to the subject of electric lighting we will explain how magnetism produces electricity.

  • You will remember that electricity must have a complete circuit or it can do no work, and in electric lighting it is always a metallic circuit that is used.

  • Although a great number of ingenious lamps had been made by the foremost inventors of the period, they were utterly useless as part of a scheme for a system of electric lighting.

  • In the next year, 1878, Edison entered upon his experiments in electric lighting.

  • This was not a new suggestion, because I had made a number of experiments on electric lighting a year before this.

  • I shall have more to say about this when speaking of electric lighting.

  • It is well to know that on board ship, probably in all cases of electric lighting, there is no danger to life to be apprehended from touching any of the leads where bare, or indeed any part of the dynamos, as the E.

  • By the end of the 19th century every large city in Europe and in North and South America was provided with a public electric supply for the purposes of electric lighting.

  • It is usual, in the case of electric lighting installations, to reckon all lamps in their equivalent number of 8 candle power (c.

  • Nevertheless the delay was utilized in the completion of inventions necessary for the safe and economical distribution of electric current for the purpose of electric lighting.

  • The object of the author was to present some results of the application of electric lighting to industrial purposes, especially as regards cost.

  • In Paris it was the one in general use until the introduction of the Jablochkoff candle, and, with the Duboscq lamp, may be looked upon as the precursor of the various lamps and regulators now employed in electric lighting.

  • In his third group the author included the machines used for producing divided lights, each group indicating a marked period representing a clearly defined stage of progress in electric lighting.

  • In the House of Commons, on August 1st, a Bill to confirm a provisional order of the Board of Trade, in reference to electric lighting at Norwich, was considered, and reported to be read a third time.

  • The Committee were also instructed "to take into consideration the question of electric lighting, as lately adopted by several corporations.

  • It is impossible to exaggerate the part played by the Pullman Company in the development of electric lighting of cars.

  • The cost of each commodity is taken as one hundred units for the year 1894 but, of course, the actual cost of living for the householder is perhaps a hundred times greater than the cost of electric lighting.

  • At the present time the light-source of chief interest in electric lighting is the incandescent filament lamp; but its luminous efficiency is limited, as has been shown in a previous chapter.

  • In fact, the lighting-fixtures and the lighting-effects obtainable kept pace with those of electric lighting, notwithstanding the greater difficulties encountered by the designer of gas-lighting fixtures.

  • As electric lighting of dwelling-houses becomes more common, and ultimately almost universal within cities, the practice will be to arrange for lighting and for ventilation at the same time.

  • Gas-engines are already very largely used as the actuators of electric lighting machinery.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    electric bell; electric charge; electric circuit; electric energy; electric field; electric force; electric induction; electric lights; electric machine; electric machines; electric railway; electric telegraph; electric torch; electric wire; electrical apparatus; electrical current; electrical currents; electricity supplied; electricity through; general intelligence; hand pocket; interior life; little sugar; necessary evil; shaped leaves; where water