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2. Light fixture - Wikipedia

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   A wide variety of special light fixtures are created for use in the automotive lighting industry, aerospace, marine and medicine sectors. [2] [3] Portable light fixtures are often called lamps, as in table lamp or desk lamp. In technical terminology, the lamp is the light source, which, in casual terminology, is called the light bulb.

3. Touch-sensitive lamp - Wikipedia

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   Aladdin Industries filed key "Aladdin Lamps" patents in 1954 and 1956, [1] [2] and commercial models were available by 1955. [3] However, due to low electrical efficiency and high price of the vacuum tube-based product, the concept was not popularized until later versions of the touch mechanism used integrated circuits and transistors to improve efficiency and reduce cost in the mid 1980s.

4. Bathroom emergency pullstring - Wikipedia

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   These pull cords are part of a communication system where, when pulled, a light outside the bathroom flashes, which notifies a nurse or someone who is around to help the person in need. In addition to the flashing light, a buzzer or tone can be heard. Ideally, they are placed near the toilet or shower. [2]

5. Leadlight - Wikipedia

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   Doors were often surmounted by decorative fanlights in which the panes of glass might be supported by lead, but wood was also commonly used as the support for the glass in fanlights. Casement windows and fixed windows continued to employ leadlight, often with larger panes of rectangular rather than diamond shape.

6. Lester Wire - Wikipedia

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   Wire's first prototype was a yellow wooden box with a pitched roof that contained red and green lights on all four sides. Wire dipped the bulbs in red and green paint to get their color as opposed to using colored glass; [7] these colors were chosen for familiarity, as they were already being used for similar purposes as nautical lights and ...

7. Transom (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Transom or transom window is also the customary U.S. word used for a transom light, the window over this crosspiece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Britain , the transom light is usually referred to as a fanlight , often with a semi-circular shape, especially when the window is segmented like the slats of a folding hand fan .