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2. Chandelier - Wikipedia

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   Classic glass and crystal chandeliers have arrays of hanging "crystal" prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light. Contemporary chandeliers may assume a more minimalist design, and they may illuminate a room with direct light from the lamps or are equipped with translucent glass shades covering each lamp.

3. Prism lighting - Wikipedia

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   Prism lighting is the use of prisms to improve the distribution of light in a space. It is usually used to distribute daylight , and is a form of anidolic lighting . Prism lighting was popular from its introduction in the 1890s through to the 1930s, when cheap electric lights became commonplace and prism lighting became unfashionable.

4. Victorian Downtown Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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   A replacement two-story retail building, ... chandeliers and mahogany furnishings. ... with 1,500 blown-glass prisms synchronized to an electronic glass bell carillon ...

5. Glan–Thompson prism - Wikipedia

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   The two halves of the prism are joined with optical cement, and the crystal axes are perpendicular to the plane of the diagram. The lower red ray exiting the prism undergoes refraction, which is not shown on this diagram. A Glan–Thompson prism is a type of polarizing prism similar to the Nicol prism and Glan–Foucault prism.

6. Nomarski prism - Wikipedia

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   The prism itself consists of two birefringent crystals, glued together with an adhesive such as Canada balsam. A Nomarski prism is a modification of the Wollaston prism that is used in differential interference contrast microscopy. It is named after its inventor, Polish and naturalized-French physicist Georges Nomarski.

7. Replacements, Ltd. - Wikipedia

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   Replacements, Ltd., based in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the world's largest retailer of china, crystal and silverware, including both patterns still available from manufactures and discontinued patterns. The company, which began in 1981, had an inventory in 2011 of 14 million items from more than 340,000 patterns, with annual sales of $80 ...