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2. Track lighting - Wikipedia

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   Track lighting is a method of lighting where light fixtures are attached anywhere on a continuous track device which contains electrical conductors. [1] [2] This is in contrast to directly routing electrical wiring to individual light positions. Tracks can either be mounted to ceilings or walls, lengthwise down beams, or across rafters or joists.

3. Lightolier - Wikipedia

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   Lightolier is a company that manufactures and sells a wide array of lighting fixtures. It was founded in 1904 by Bernhard Blitzer under the name of New York Gas and Appliance Co. When electric lighting started to be more widely accepted, the name was changed to Lightolier , a contraction of the words light and chandelier .

4. Daylighting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The reflector had found favor where the choices of artificial light provided poor illumination compared to modern electric lighting. Light shelves are an effective way to enhance the lighting from windows on the equator-facing side of a structure, this effect being obtained by placing a white or reflective metal light shelf outside the window. [19]

5. Light fixture - Wikipedia

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   Cove light – indirect lighting recessed into the ceiling in a long box against a wall. Troffer – recessed fluorescent light fixtures, usually rectangular in shape to fit into a drop ceiling grid. Chandeliers and table lamps in the Bibliothèque Mazarine (Paris) Surface-mounted light – the finished housing is exposed, not flush with the ...

6. Recessed light - Wikipedia

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   Different types of recessed lighting in a warehouse "Pot light" or "canister light" implies the hole is circular and the lighting fixture is cylindrical, like a pot or canister. There are three parts to a recessed lighting fixture: housing, trim and bulb. The trim is the visible portion of the light.

7. Sconce (light fixture) - Wikipedia

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   The light of the candle flame was often intensified by a reflecting backplate. Using brackets, the candle or gas flame would be kept at safe distance from the wall and ceiling. [3] Modern electric light fixture sconces are often used in hallways or corridors to provide both lighting and a point of interest in a long passage. Sconce height in a ...