Sentences with phrase «of electric lights»

The Amish primarily decided to adopt solar technology for both safety concerns (gas lamps = fire hazard) and out of legal requirements (the law requires the presence of electric lights on horse - drawn buggies).

Although there were some improvements during his Directorship such as the 1932 adoption of Tate Gallery as its official name and the installation of electric lights in 1935, Manson's dislike of modern art meant that a number of important works of modern art were turned down by the Tate.

In two of Mary Beth Edelson's photographs from the 1970s, the artist appears in the nude, curled up inside a ring of electric lights.

Peerless was the first manufacturer to introduce electric headlights across its range in 1904, and four years later Pockley Automobile Electric Lighting offered a complete set of electric lights including headlights, rear lights and sidelights, which were powered by an eight - volt battery.

For the film to work, the sound has to be every bit as seamless, from the shouts of stagehands to the humming of electric lights, from the roar of the crowd to the clamour of New York traffic.

Ever since the introduction of electric lights, however, it has become possible for humans to remain awake at any hour they choose.

In the world's poorest places, the movements and prosperity of people can be traced by the appearance of electric lights, which is recorded by US weather satellites.

The glow of electric lights paints a glittering map of a region's infrastructure, showing roughly where the rich and poor live.

Indians celebrate with family gatherings, by lighting clay lamps, fireworks, strings of electric lights, bonfires, flowers, sharing, worship, and celebrating with family and friends.

Strings of electric lights are as hazardous as they are attractive to young children, who can easily get wrapped up in the wires, running the risk of being strangled or even electrocuted.

And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

Those who loudly deplore the intrusion of «science» into our private lives and speak nostalgically of the past would be among the first to complain if they were deprived of the convenience of electric light, the telephone or the motor car!

Research has revealed that right up until the advent of electric light, humans normally experienced 2 distinct segments of sleep.

I love the look of this electric light up toothbrush — anything to win the toothbrush battle is worth a go!

ELECTRIC LIGHTHOUSE — «Professor Faraday, F.R.S., described the application of the Electric Light to the South Foreland lighthouse (England) by Professor Holmes: - «Two magneto - electric machines are employed at the South Foreland lighthouse, and each is operated by a two - horse - power steam engine.

For some the decrease was around 12 decibels, about the magnitude of an electric light bulb's hum.

In fact, emergence of electric lighting was the main motivating factor for deployment of electricity into every home in the world.

With the invention of electric light bulbs in the 1870s, followed by the development of television, the Internet, and other high tech devices, researchers have argued that the duration of sleep has been shortened from the «natural» levels evolved in our hunter - gatherer ancestors.

And last year, he joined the board of We Care Solar, a California - based nonprofit focused on ensuring that babies around the world are delivered with the aid of electric lighting.

The most disruptive event in the history of biotime occurred on December 31, 1879 with the invention of the electric light bulb.

Think about it, until the invention of electric light bulbs, people relied on the sun for the majority of their light.

For all the gloss and floss that accompanies the release of Electric Light, Bay is still very much at home in the earnest ruminations and folk - rocky tones of his debut, only now with higher production values and more bounce to the ounce.

Not only does it boast the jolly, toe - tapping strains of Electric Light Orchestra's «Mr. Blue Sky,» but it comically zeroes in on an adorable dancing Baby Groot while a kinetic battle between the rest of the gang and a huge monster is relegated to the background.

«Tweren't nothing or nobody going to stop me from making my appointed rounds in the motley procession of deathmobiles my pals and I rode around in, back when drum brakes, eight - track players, and leaded gas were as much a part of everyday life as platform shoes, fringe vests, and the radio hits of the Electric Light Orchestra.

if apple had created this device 10 years ago, we might not even have e-ink today — just like we could have ended up with gas mantle lamps instead of electric light bulbs.

Degas has gone through the press, emerging with an efficient new language in which to translate his beloved café singers, prostitutes and dancers emerging from the gloom into the novel brightness of electric light.

Between 1963 and his death in 1996, Flavin worked almost exclusively in this unique medium, indefatigably pursuing what he called «acts of electric light defining space» (D. Flavin, «in day light or cool white, an autobiographical sketch», Artforum, no. 4, December 1965, p. 24).

One of the medium's pioneers is the American minimalist artist Dan Flavin, who from the early 1960s onwards developed a tightly structured exploration of electric light and colour through his poetic and atmospheric sculptural installations using found materials.

It is this aspect of electric light that most fascinates the American artist Jenny Holzer, who has consistently interrogated light as a medium used to convey messages in language.

Flavin's «monuments» embody what he described as his goal of working on «a sequence of implicit decisions to combine traditions of painting and sculpture in architecture with acts of electric light defining space.»

There's a rare chance to see a selection of Buren's reliefs, paintings and sculpture from the past seven years in the Baltic's Level 3 gallery, which includes the striped, luminous fibre - optic works of his Electric Light series, 2011, as well as a number of astonishingly powerful, geometric, bas - relief wall pieces that bring to mind something of Donald Judd's work with the square and cube.

Her techniques have included the use of electric light, ceramic tiles, and glass microspheres, with which she creates simple geometric configurations that give structure to the luminescent internal space of her paintings.

According to the Operating Performance Rankings industry report in the Nov. / Dec. 2008 issue of Electric Light & Power, coal - fired power plant capacity factors range from 72 percent to 93 percent, combined cycle from 41 percent to 86 percent and nuclear from 90 percent to 96 percent.

The miracle of electric light is in its infancy.

They pioneered the world changing development of electric light and LED and are now leading the way in intelligent lighting systems.

Not exact matches

But while the Oral - B Pro 7500 electric toothbrush packs plenty of power, what it won't do is concentrate too much of that power: The toothbrush has a built - in pressure sensor that stops its motion and illuminates a light ring set into the handle if you are pressing too hard, thereby protecting tooth enamel from undue damage.

This would make the cars lighter — important because of the weight of electric batteries — but also allowing for more inventive designs.

What should Olympic sponsors and «partners» like Coke and General Electric and Visa do in light of expert recommendations that the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro be postponed or moved?

It demoed at CES recently, where attendees couldn't help but be drawn in by the sounds of an electric guitar and the product's colorful flashing lights.

The incandescent light bulb was a vacuum - filled glass globe in which an electric current heated a resistive thin strip of material (called a filament) until it glowed, producing light.

With the release of two new lightbulbs, General Electric is hoping to bring nature's lighting cycles inside your home.

By 1890, four companies fell under the umbrella of GE: a lamp manufacturer, a dynamo and electric motor manufacturer, a fixture and lighting device company, and a patent holding company, which was then merged into Edison General Electric company electric motor manufacturer, a fixture and lighting device company, and a patent holding company, which was then merged into Edison General Electric company Electric company in 1889.

It was driven by a flurry of technologies — electric lights, telephones, automobiles, indoor plumbing — that fundamentally transformed millions of American lives within a matter of decades.

Mining is big business in Canada — and the metals and minerals we're producing are essential to increase the global supply of solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, LED light bulbs and electric cars.

Meanwhile, the electric and lighting manufacturer is expected to see earnings growth of 26 percent over the next year, she said.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

This structure is a big reason that Apple has a much narrower line of products than a conventional company like General Electric, which makes everything from light bulbs to MRI machines.

In light of that, it makes the record of being the first production electric vehicle to go more than 300 miles.

Shares in the company were once again sliding on Monday after the company's C.E.O., Elon Musk, joked on April 1 that Tesla had gone bankrupt, an apparent attempt to make light of concerns that the electric car maker is straining under its debt load.

SALT LAKE CITY — Newmark Grubb ACRES, a Utah - based brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of a portfolio of single - tenant retail properties leased to Codale Electric Supply Inc., a Salt Lake City - based distributor of electric, energy and lighting pElectric Supply Inc., a Salt Lake City - based distributor of electric, energy and lighting pelectric, energy and lighting products.