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  2. Headlight flashing - Wikipedia

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    Headlight flashing might have come into more common use as a means of attempting driver-to-driver communication by the mid-1970s, [3] when cars began to come with headlight beam selectors located on the steering column—typically activated by pulling the turn signal stalk—rather than the previous foot-operated pushbutton switches.

  3. Automotive lighting - Wikipedia

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    The first Ford Model T used carbide lamps for headlights and oil lamps for tail lights. It did not have all-electric lighting as a standard feature until several years after its introduction. Dynamos for automobile headlights were first fitted around 1908 and became commonplace in 1920s automobiles.

  4. List of automotive light bulb types - Wikipedia

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    Used on circuit boards for e.g. dash lights, gauge cluster backlights. Similar in size to W3W if with a T10 base. PC74 T1-3/4 (if removable) or fixed to holder [9] 1 14 V / 1.4W Used on circuit boards for e.g. dash lights, gauge cluster backlights.

  5. Automatic Warning System - Wikipedia

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    Instead, a 3 V circuit from a switch in the signal box operated a relay in the battery box. When the signal was at 'caution' or 'danger', the ramp battery was disconnected and so could not replace the locomotive's battery current: the brake valve solenoid would then be released causing air to be admitted to the vacuum train pipe via a siren ...

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  7. Motorcycle headlamp modulator - Wikipedia

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    A motorcycle headlamp modulator (or simply headlamp modulator) is an accessory device that oscillates the intensity of a motorcycle headlamp at 240 ±40 cycles per minute (~4 Hz) [1] between approximately 20% and 100% of full intensity.

  8. Headlamp - Wikipedia

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    One of the first civilian examples of headlight covers was produced in NSW, Australia by the Read family dairy. [169] The use of headlight covers and the modification of light produced by vehicles continued in both the military's development of special blackout head and tail light technologies and in the civilian sector as well. In addition to ...

  9. French railway signalling - Wikipedia

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    Beginning of a neutral zone (without electric power); electric locomotives must pass with the main circuit breaker open. End of a neutral zone; electric locomotives can close the main circuit breaker and raise the pantograph. End of the catenary: beyond this sign, the line is no longer electrified and only non-electric locos can continue.