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2 unusual facts about LAMP


Fall prevention

Lamps and lighting, for example, should be of great intensity or power (or illuminance) so that dangers are clearly illuminated, and be seen by users.

Lightbulb socket

Lamps are usually inserted in lampholder sockets which provide electrical connections to the lamp and support it in the lighting fixture.


1774 in Wales

An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.

Aimé Argand

The invention of the lamp did not consist, then, of only one invention, but rather of the improvement and development of a complete system of parts all working together, not unlike Edison's invention of the electrical lighting system that was to again revolutionize lighting over a century later.

Ambient device

The New York Times Magazine announced ambient devices as one of the Ideas of the Year in 2002 on the heels of a start-up company, Ambient Devices, releasing their first product Ambient Orb, a frosted-glass ball lamp which maps information to a linear color spectrum and displays the trend in the data.

Americana series

An invert error of the $1 lamp stamp, it was so named because the original sheet was bought by a CIA employee who had gone to the post office to buy some stamps.

Arnold Machin

In the 1956, while resident at number 15, The Villas, Stokeville, (an estate of 24 Victorian houses in Stoke-upon-Trent) he received publicity in the national press when he chained himself to an old metal lamp-post in protest at its planned removal.

Bagrat Ulubabyan

He, however, shifted his focus and began writing short stories as well as epics: "Aygestan" (1960), "Tartar" (1963), "The Grain Never Dies" (1967), and "Lamp" (1976).

Barrie Stavis

His play, Lamp at Midnight, about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966.

Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

Division III - cosmetics and home products, namely Cantharidine Hair Oil, Disinfectant Fluid (Lamp Brand Pheneol), Moth Repellant (Naphthalene Ball), Aguru (Perfume), Floor Cleanser (White Tiger) and Toilet Cleaner (Klin Toilet).

Brian Mullins

Mullins was driving out the Clontarf Road in Dublin when his Fiat 127 went out of control and collided with a lamp post.

Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan

Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (Hindi: चिराग कहाँ रोशनी कहाँ ; English: Where is the lamp, where is the light) is a 1959 Indian Bollywood film directed and produced by Devendra Goel.

Christ Is My Hope

A collection of newly recorded spiritual music ("O Lord of Light", "O Sacred Head Surrounded", "Beautiful Saviour"), folk songs ("500 Miles"), ballads ("Fare Thee Well") and original songs ("No Storms Come", "Christ Is My Hope", "Morning Star"), the record was released independently by the group's own label, LAMP, with all proceeds being donated to hunger relief charities.

Electric Dirt

#"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Richard Carroll Lamp, Willy E. Taylor) – 3:25

George Sperti

His invention of an Ultraviolet "Vitamin D" lamp for irradiating milk was sold to General Foods for $300,000.

Georges Cochevelou

The astignomètre, one was winning in the competition Lepine for its eclectic works (the astignomètre, an ophthalmological device, for example), created a lamp of lounge (sold by Lancel, French leatherware), built furniture like a real cabinet maker (French polish, marquetry), painted paintings in an original technique "of watercolor in the oil" on panels of hardboard painted in white (exhibition of the independents to the academy Raymond Duncan).

Hal Abelson

Abelson is known to have been involved in the publishing of Andrew Huang's Hacking the Xbox and Keith Winstein's seven-line Perl DeCSS script (known as qrpff), as well as LAMP, MIT's campus-wide music distribution system.

Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff

Intended for use by miners, the lamp was actually developed both by Alphonse Dumas, an engineer at the iron mines of Saint-Priest and of Lac, near Privas, in the départment of Ardèche, France, and by Dr. Camille Benoît, a medical doctor in Privas.

IMac G4

Apple advertised the iMac G4 as having the adjustability of a desk lamp, and was nicknamed the "iLamp", similar to "Luxo Jr.", who was featured in a short film produced by Pixar, another venture of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Inteva Products

In the following 30 years, four additional automotive suppliers, Inland Manufacturing Company, Fisher Body Company, Guide Lamp and Arvin Heater Company were born, creating the origins of Inteva’s four major product lines.

Johann Peter Kellner

He was born in Gräfenroda, Thuringia, and was intended by his parents to follow his father into a career as a lamp-black merchant.

John Bellers

Bellers is also quoted in a footnote in Chapter 23 of Das Kapital; "Labour is as proper for the body’s health as eating is for its living ... Labour adds Oyl to the Lamp of Life when thinking Inflames it".

John Emory Powers

In 1886, Powers became a freelance copywriter, and worked for other companies including MacBeth's Lamp Chimneys, Beecham's Pills, Vacuum Oil, Scott’s Emulsion and Murphy Varnish.

Kegworth air disaster

Just before crossing the M1 motorway, the tail struck the ground and the aircraft bounced back into the air and over the motorway, knocking down trees and a lamp post before crashing on the far embankment and breaking into three sections approximately 519yd (1/4 mile) short from the active runway's paved surface and approximately 689yd (1/3 mile) from its threshold.

Lamp box

The term "lamp box" is also used to refer to a computer running the LAMP solution stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), and generally used as a web server.

Lampadarius

"Eustace also laid it down", says Walter of Coventry, speaking of his visit to England, "that in London and in many other places, there should be in every church where it was practicable, a burning lamp or some other perpetual light before the Lord's Body."

Louis Poulsen

A/S celebrated the occasion by publishing a book on the history of the PH lamp, by recreating the PH table lamp and TREPH pendant of the late 1920s, and by arranging an exhibition of old PH lamps at the Museum of Decorative Art (Kunstindustrimuseet) in Copenhagen.

Lynas

SMSL was loosely formed by Fuziah and her team in March 2011, after a signature drive launch and public talk on the urgent need to cease the LAMP from commencing operations The group is currently led by Bentong parliamentary candidate Wong Tack.

Mainpuri

Cotton ginning, oilseed milling, and lamp and glass manufacture constitute the prominent industries.

MC Pitman

He styles himself as a coal miner, and appears on stage and in videos dressed in a British Coal jacket, a hard hat with a lamp and a flask of tea.

Old Caloundra Light

The lighthouse's last active power source was a 500 Watt 110 Volt Philips lamp, fed by the Mains electricity.

Petromax

Petromax is a brand name for a type of pressurised paraffin lamp (US:kerosene lamp) that uses a mantle.

Queenscliff Low Light

The lamp and its housings were manufactured in England by Chance Brothers.

Rane Vaskivuori

Rane Vaskivuori (born 1967) in a Finnish designer whose best-known works include the Glowblow lamp (together with Vesa Hinkola and Markus Nevalainen), which MoMA New York has included in its permanent collection, and the Y umbrella and coat rack.

RDGLDGRN

In June 2012, the demo recording of "I Love Lamp" was used as the theme song for the world record Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare at the 2012 X Games in Los Angeles, California.

Roy LeCraw

In 2002 a lamp was installed in his honor at 2970 Peachtree Road in Buckhead.

Saffo the Greek

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana) several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

Sagara Sanosuke

Watsuki describes Sanosuke's visual motif by referring to his design model, Lamp, the main character of Takeshi Obata's Mashin Bōken Tan Lamp-Lamp.

Sanctuary lamp

The lamp may be suspended by a rope or chain over the tabernacle or near the entry of the sanctuary, or it may be affixed to a wall; it is also sometimes placed on a ledge beside the tabernacle or on an individual stand placed on the floor, as seen in the image of St. Martin's church, Kortrijk, Belgium, in the article Church tabernacle.

Soko J-21 Jastreb

The fate of at least one J-21 Jastreb was not much better: one of the Serbian pilots, Ratko Turčinović, was killed while flying an ultra-low-level pass over Gbadolite, clipping a lamp post with his wing.

Steven Paulsen

1996 Origins Award for Best Game-Related Fiction won by The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror edited by Robert M. Price which contained Paulsen's short story 'In the Light of the Lamp'

Thai television soap opera

The Thai hit series, Girl in The Glass Lamp, based on India legend Aladdin, had a sequel but with different casting.

Thomas Hastie Bell

In Place de la République in a Sunday, amidst a big crowd and policemen, he climbed up a lamp-post and gave a speech.

Tyneside

Tynesiders may have been given this name, a local diminutive of the name "George", because their miners used George Stephenson's safety lamp (called a "Georgie lamp") to prevent firedamp explosions, rather than the Davy lamp used elsewhere.

Type 730 CIWS

The radar TR47C is a derivative of the EFR-1/LR66 J-band radar (NATO code name: Rice Lamp) by Xi'an Research Institute of Navigation Technology, but it is unclear that if this derivative is developed by the same institution.

Video magnifier

The display screen is usually LCD or a similar flat-screen technology (although older video magnifiers have used CRT displays), and the device usually includes a lamp to illuminate the source material.

Web operations

The three-tiered model of web, application, and database components (such as LAMP environments consisting of Linux, MySQL and either Perl or PHP)

Year's Best SF 3

Paul Levinson: "The Mendelian Lamp Case" (First published in Analog, 1997)


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