Incandescent light bulbs

The ribbon machine employs a puff-and-blow method to make incandescent light bulb envelopes (1200/min), dashbulb envelopes (2000/min), Christmas tree ornaments, and the like (Fig. 15). For larger articles, the turret chain machine also uses the puff-and-blow method, but produces less cuUet and uses individual glass gobs rather than ribbon. 

The same properties that make molybdenum metal effective in high temperature furnace appHcations make it useful as support wires for tungsten filaments in incandescent light bulbs and as targets in x-ray tubes. 

Real or gray bodies deviate from these ideal blackbody values by the A-dependent emissivity, but the color sequence remains essentially the same. This mechanism explains the color of incandescent light sources such as flames in a candle, tungsten filament light bulb, flash bulb, carbon arc, limelight, lightning in part, and the incandescent part of pyrotechnics (qv). 

It is widely used by the electronics industry in the manufacture of capacitors, where the oxide film is an efficient insulator, and as a filament or filament support. Indeed, it was for a while widely used to replace carbon as the filament in incandescent light bulbs but, by about 1911, was, itself superseded by tungsten. 

A number of new technology promotion options are being explored in the lighting area. Work is undeiway on market transformation programs based on bulk procurement for improved efficacy incandescent light bulbs and for compact fluorescent lamps and fixtures. For incandescent lamps, adaptations of the infrared reflective lamp coating that is already in use on reflector bulbs are encouraged by the EPAct requirement. 

Water was first used to generate electricity in 1880 in Grand Rapids, Michigan when a water turbine was used to provide storefront lighting to the city. In 1882—only two years after Thomas Edison demonstrated the incandescent light bulb—the first hydroelectric station to use Edison s system was installed on the Fox River at Appleton, Wisconsin. In 1881, construction began on the first hydroelectric generat-... 

The term plastic is not a definitive one. Metals, for instance, are also permanently deformable and are therefore plastic. How else could roll aluminum be made into foil for kitchen use, or tungsten wire be drawn into a filament for an incandescent, light bulb, or a 100 ton ingot of steel be forged into a rotor for a generator. Likewise the different glasses, which contain compounds of metals and nonmetals, can be permanently shaped at high temperatures. These cousins to polymers and plastics are not considered plastics within the plastic industry or context of this book. 

Coatings for gas-discharge light bulbs. Gradually replacing incandescent bulbs, these bulbs are more efficient, but require a coating to reflect the IR radiation back into the filament. 

The lifetime of a tungsten filament in an incandescent light bulb depends a great deed on the grain size of the wire used to make the filament. W-metal powder is pressed into a bar at pressures which ensure that the density is as... 

In his lifetime, Thomas Alva Edison patented 1,093 inventions, but the incandescent light bulb is generally regarded as his most famous invention. On October 21,1879, 29-year-old Thomas Edison demonstrated the first incandescent lamp in Menlo Park, NJ. The bulb burned for 13.5 hours. The chemistry of the components of this lighting device are essential to its incredible success. 

Another everyday example of incandescence is the heating of a metal wire to about 1000 °C in a conventional light bulb. The light emitted from a candle or other form of fire is a further demonstration of incandescence. 

The luminous efficiency is the simplest to calculate. It is the ratio of the luminance (cd/m2) to the current density (A/m2), and has units of cd/A. Finally, the power efficiency is the ratio of the light output in lumens divided by the electrical input in watts. For reference, a typical incandescent light bulb is 151m/W, while a fluorescent light bulb is 601m/W. 

Practise using the spectroscope or diffraction grating by observing an incandescent light bulb. Point the slit of the spectroscope toward the bulb and move the spectroscope until you can clearly see the spectrum. 

Vacuum cups, fingers and holders for incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs. .. 

Krypton is expensive to produce, which limits its use as an inert gas. It is used in a mixture with argon to fill incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent lamps, lasers, and high-speed photography lamps. Radioactive Kr-85 is used as a source of radiation to measure the thickness of industrial materials. It is also used to test for leakage of scientific instruments. 

Colorimeter. An instrument for routine chemical analysis. Compounds or ions which absorb light in the visible part of the spectrum (400 to 800 nanometers) or which are convertible by specific reagents to such compounds can be analyzed with a colorimeter. The instrument typically incorporates an incandescent light bulb as light source, filters to separate the spectral region, a cuvette to contain the sample solution, and a photometer. See also Colorimetry,... 

CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lamp) In lighting, CFL stands for compact fluorescent lamp, a type of light bulb that provides considerable energy savings over traditional incandescent light bulbs. 

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