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2. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   For public displays large C7 bulbs are generally used, but by the 1990s light sculptures were being made in smaller form with miniature lights for home use. Consumer types now tend to come with a plastic sheet backing printed in the proper design, and in the 2000s now with nearly photographic quality graphics and usually on a holographic ...

3. UV-B lamps - Wikipedia

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   In contrast, fluorescent UVB lamps come in two types: broadband (or wideband) and narrowband. Broadband UVB lamps have a peak wavelength of 306 nanometers. Since only a small portion of their spectrum falls near the optimal 297 nanometers, these lamps require a higher dose of 0.5 joules per square centimeter.

4. Tanning lamp - Wikipedia

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   Tanning lamps (sometimes called tanning bulbs in the United States or tanning tubes in Europe) are the part of a tanning bed, booth or other tanning device which produces ultraviolet light used for indoor tanning. There are hundreds of different kinds of tanning lamps most of which can be classified in two basic groups: low pressure and high ...

5. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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   While he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, he had Christmas tree light bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his Christmas tree, which was hand-wired with 80 red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs the size of walnuts, in December 1882 at his home near Fifth Avenue in New York City.

6. Twinkle bulb - Wikipedia

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   The advent of miniature lights found the adaptation of twinkle bulbs as flasher bulbs, which interrupt the entire series circuit of anywhere from 10 to 50 bulbs when powered from 120-volt mains electricity (in North America). These are easily recognizable by their red tips on an otherwise unpainted clear white bulb, and are available in the ...

7. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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   Announced in 2011 China has banned imports and sales of certain incandescent light bulbs since October 2012 to encourage the use of alternative lighting sources such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with a 5-year plan of phasing-out incandescent light bulbs over 100 watts starting 1 October 2012, and gradually extend the ban to those over 15 ...