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  2. Arco (lamp) - Wikipedia

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    The Arco lamp is a modern floor lamp designed by brothers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni for Flos in 1962. [1] The lamp is characterized by a suspended spun aluminum pendant attached to an upright block of Carrara marble via a cantilevered arching arm made of stainless steel.

  3. 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.

  4. Pull switch - Wikipedia

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    The most common use of a pull switch is to operate a ceiling electric light.The ceiling fan and mechanical wall fans are also appliances often operated by pull switches. . Pull switches may be either two-position (open or closed) or multi-position (allowing for different fan speeds or levels of illuminati

  5. Balanced-arm lamp - Wikipedia

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    Single weight chain lamp. This construction uses a chain to keep the arm with the counterweight and the forearm parallel. The lamp-cap and counterweight move in opposite directions (both away from the base or both towards it). The balance that is required is shown by the following formula: d 1 = Lamp-cap to base; m 1 = weight of lamp-cap

  6. Arc lamp - Wikipedia

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    An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, was the first practical electric light .

  7. Yablochkov candle - Wikipedia

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    The arc then continues to burn, gradually consuming the carbon electrodes and the intervening plaster, which melts at the same pace. The first candles were powered by a Gramme machine . The drawback of using direct current was that one of the rods would burn at twice the rate of the other.

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