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unusual facts about Electric light


Al Rasheed Street

In 1917, Al Rasheed Street was the first street to be electrically illuminated in Baghdad city.


TRIAC

Low power TRIACs are used in many applications such as light dimmers, speed controls for electric fans and other electric motors, and in the modern computerized control circuits of many household small and major appliances.


see also

All Over the World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra

All Over the World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra is a compilation album by the Electric Light Orchestra, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music).

Coolgardie, Western Australia

An example of this decline is that, in March 1896, Coolgardie's main street was lit by an electric light, but by April 1924, the same street was lit by four Hurricane Lamps.

Henry I. Patrie

Patrie was Manager of the Dolgeville Electric Light and Power Company from 1898 to 1905, and during this time was also appointed as Receiver of the Dolgeville Telephone Company and the Dolgeville Savings Building and Loan Association.

Kansas City Power and Light Company

An electric war ensued when in 1883 J. Ogden Armour, heir to the Armour Packing Company purchased the company on May 14, 1900, to power the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and Kansas City Electric Light Company.

Kõpu Lighthouse

Kohler generators were installed in 1949 along with the stationary electric light system.

Kuzuha, Hirakata, Osaka

It was the bamboo from this forest that Thomas Edison (1847–1931) used as filament in his first electric light bulbs.

Léon Foucault

In 1865 he published his papers on a modification of James Watt's governor; he had for some time been experimenting with a view to making its period of revolution constant and developing a new apparatus for regulating the electric light.

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne

Engineer and inventor George Stephenson showed his miner's lamp there, and in 1879, when Joseph Swan demonstrated his electric light bulbs, the Lit and Phil building became the first public building to be so illuminated.

Secret Messages

This was Jeff Lynne's second tongue-in-cheek response to allegations of hidden Satanic messages in earlier Electric Light Orchestra LPs by Christian fundamentalists which led up to early 1980s American congressional hearings (a similar response had been made by Lynne on the Face the Music album, during the intro to the "Fire on High" track).

Sherman Creek Generating Station

United Electric Light and Power was later absorbed into Consolidated Edison, and the station was demolished.