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  2. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    1815 Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp. 1823 Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner invents the Döbereiner's lamp. 1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee. 1841 Arc-lighting is used as experimental public lighting in Paris. 1853 Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents the modern kerosene ...

  3. Light fixture - Wikipedia

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    Table lamp fixtures, standard lamp fixtures, and office task light luminaires. Balanced-arm lamp is a spot light with an adjustable arm such as anglepoise, RAMUN or Luxo L1. Gooseneck (fixture) Nightlight; Floor Lamp Torch lamp or torchières are floor lamps with an upward-facing shade. They provide general lighting to the rest of the room.

  4. Tiffany lamp - Wikipedia

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    Table lamp c. 1900–1906. A Tiffany lamp is a type of lamp made of glass and shade designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany or artisans, mostly women, and made (in originals) in his design studio. The glass in the lampshades is put together with the copper-foil technique instead of leaded, the classic technique for stained-glass windows.

  5. Sanctuary lamp - Wikipedia

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    Sanctuary lamp - Wikipedia ... 圣所灯

  6. Torchère - Wikipedia

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    Today, torchère lamps use fluorescent, halogen, or LED light bulbs. Adjusting the pulse-width modulation in the electronic ballast can allow the fluorescent torchères to be dimmed. Halogen torchères usually came with a simple switch. Some more expensive models have a TRIAC dimmer circuit built into the stem. Early lamps with 300W bulbs ...

  7. Banker's lamp - Wikipedia

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    An example of a banker's lamp. The banker's lamp is a style of electric desk or table lamp often characterized by a brass stand, green glass lamp shade, and pull-chain switch. Such a lamp was first patented in the United States under the Emeralite brand name. These types of lamp are frequently used in libraries throughout the United States ...

  8. Tensor lamp - Wikipedia

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    United States. A Tensor lamp is a trademarked brand of small high-intensity low-voltage desk lamp invented by Jay Monroe. [1][2] The lamp was mainly popular during the 1960s and 1970s. [3][4] The lamp was originally used by doctors and dentists, and later became more widely used. [5] The first prototype was created in 1959, and the lamp was ...

  9. Lighting - Wikipedia

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    Lighting - Wikipedia ... Lighting