Sentences with phrase «electric bulb»

Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment.

In the 1938 annual exhibition of the American Abstract Artists, he showed a series of shadow boxes, shallow wooden containers holding plaster - coated wire, mesh, and free - form organic shapes that were lighted with electric bulbs.

The story of how Thomas A. Edison failed 10,000 times before he eventually invented the incandescent electric bulb is one that can't be forgotten easily.

Torchlight and candlelight take the place of electric bulbs.

In 1938, he made a series of «wooden shadow boxes with hidden electric bulbs to illuminate the interiors.

Stuart Davis refused to paint the colors of the landscape and created grisaille (monochrome) paintings like Electric Bulb, New Mexico (1923).

Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment.

«When we finally discovered the eggs, we felt like Thomas Edison must have felt seeing an electric bulb lighting for the first time.

She preferred the candle's burning ribbons to the electric bulb, buzzing bright and incriminating high above.

For people living in the poorest regions of the world without access to, or money for electric bulbs, the bottle light has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life, as Notions Capital describes it, for «billions of poor people in sun - swept favelas, shantytowns, and bidonvilles and scattered rural dwellings around the globe.»

The illuminated sign was constructed to advertise a new housing development called Hollywoodland in 1923, featuring some 4,000 electric bulbs.

Liter of Light is a project which transforms ordinary bottles into glowing bulbs that cost little or nothing, never burn out and are as bright as an electric bulb.

In the 1940s, on returning to New York from Mexico, he applied for a job as the lighting designer of the Wondersign, a vast Times Square billboard comprising more than 20,000 electric bulbs.

The central opening both «facilitates easy access to the herbs and the passage of light from an electric bulb hanging up in the lights.»