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unusual facts about bulb



65th Grey Cup

"By game day, a bunch of guys settled on using steel cleats. Before the warm-up, I noticed a guy from Bell Canada walking by with a staple gun. A light bulb went on. 'I've tried everything, but not that.' So I tried putting staples in my shoes. I stapled an 'X' on about six bumps. Gordon Judges and Chuck Zapiec put some in, too. We looked at each other and said, 'That's it.'"

Aortic sac

Genes dHAND and eHAND are expressed during the development of the aortic bulb and the arteries which arise from it.

Barretter

Iron-hydrogen resistor or barretter, a hydrogen-filled glass bulb in which an iron wire is located

Botanical nomenclature

While agreeing that the genus Chionodoxa is closely related to the genus Scilla, nevertheless the bulb specialist Brian Mathew considers that their differences warrant maintaining separate genera.

Camassia

A pit-cooked camas bulb looks and tastes something like baked sweet potato, but sweeter, and with more crystalline fibers due to the presence of inulin in the bulbs.

De Graaff Brothers

The de Graaff brothers (De Gebroeders de Graaff, Gebr. de Graaff) were a Dutch horticultural family company based in Lisse, Netherlands, in an area known as Duin- en Bollenstreek (Dune and Bulb Region), the centre of the Dutch bulb and floriculture industry.

Edison screw

The designation Exx refers to the base diameter in millimeters (i.e., E12 has a diameter of 12 mm.) This is distinct from the bulb glass size which in the U.S. is given in eighths of an inch (i.e., A19, MR16, T12).

Eucomis autumnalis

Sterilised bulb scales, leaf bases or flower stalks can be used in tissue culture.

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb

Franjo Hanaman, inventor of contemporary classic light bulb with tungsten-tantalum alloy

Green onion

Scallion, various members of the genus Allium that lack a fully developed bulb

Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Dutch illusionist Hans Klok and Darren Romeo perform the famous "Blackstone Floating Light Bulb" illusion under a licensing agreement with Blackstone Magik Enterprises Inc.

High CRI LED Lighting

Lumens is a measure of the light given off by the bulb.

Indian Ice-cream

Mild sweeteners such as fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), camas bulb (Camassia quamash) or sweet berries such as salal berries (Gaultheria shallon), or thimbleberries (Rubus parviflorus) are occasionally added.

Leopold Koppel

In February 1920, DGA merged its light bulb manufacturing with that of Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and Siemens & Halske and they became limited partners under OSRAM G.m.b.H. KG; the start of the business year was dated retroactively to 1 July 1919.

LIFX

The master light bulb connects to the router via 802.11n and then to all the other LIFX bulbs in the house via an IPV6 802.15.4 mesh network.

Linthouse

The Luma Tower is a famous landmark in the area; originally an Art Deco light bulb factory - it was restored and converted to private housing in the mid-1990s.

Longest-lasting light bulbs

The bulb is located in the Memorial Tower at the Edison Memorial Museum in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

The fifth longest-lasting light bulb was in a washroom at the Martin & Newby Electrical Shop in Ipswich, England.

The bulb has been noted by The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and General Electric as being the world's longest-lasting light bulb.

Merodon

One of the more common species in the genus, Merodon equestris is known as the Narcissus bulb fly, greater bulb-fly, large bulb fly or large Narcissus fly.

Minolta XE

The XE uses a Leitz-Copal electronic, vertically traveling, metal blade focal plane shutter supporting exposure times of 1/1000 of a second to four seconds, plus bulb setting.

Needle remover

The BD Uniject is a prefilled vaccine syringe that uses a plastic bulb instead of a plunger and has a disc valve to prevent reuse (Becton, Dickinson, and Company, 2005).

Pallophotophone

Among the material on the surviving reels is the earliest known recording of the NBC chimes, a broadcast of a high school basketball match (believed to be the world's second-oldest recording of a sports broadcast) and a historic 1929 recording of the 82-year-old Thomas Edison, with Henry Ford and President Herbert Hoover, speaking on a broadcast commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb.

Prismatic blade

Flake scars are absent on the ventral surface of these blades, though eraillure flakes are sometimes present on the bulb .

Rachel Goodrich

Goodrich's song, "Light Bulb", was featured in an episode of the TV series Weeds, and the song also features in a Crayola commercial advertisement.

Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens

It has a bulb-like aspherical lens, similar to notable wide-angle and fisheye lenses such as the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, Nikon AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED, or Tokina AT-X 107 DX AF 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fisheye lens.

Solar engine

Crookes radiometer, a light mill composed of an airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum.

South Beach Tow

According to cast member Christie Ashenoff, the idea for the program came after Tremont towed the car of Simon Fields: "He tells us that a few days later a light bulb went off in his head that if he lost his mind, that everyone else must too".

Tourism in Tarn

The Pink Garlic of Lautrec comes in the form of a bulb with cloves (or bulblets) of a beautiful pink color.

Wesson, Mississippi

One year after Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb the Mississippi Mills put them to use.

Woylie

Although it may eat bulbs, tubers, seeds, insects, and resin of the hakea plant, the bulk of its nutrients are derived from underground fungi which it digs out with its strong foreclaws.


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