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2. Glass enclosure - Wikipedia

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   A container or cage such as a fish tank, terrarium, etc. A building, such as a greenhouse (or glasshouse), that may or may not have a curtain wall; Display case; Casing around an object, such as a light bulb, LED, fuse (electrical), vacuum tube, glass case in electronic packaging, etc. (and at the top of a lighthouse, a lantern, the Popemobile ...

3. Chance Brothers - Wikipedia

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   James Timmins Chance pioneered placing lighthouse lamps inside a cage surrounded by Fresnel lenses to increase the available light output; the cages, known as optics, revolutionised lighthouse design. Another important innovation from Chance Brothers was the introduction of rotating optics, allowing adjacent lighthouses to be distinguished from ...

4. Corning Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Over its 160-year history Corning invented a process for rapid and inexpensive production of light bulbs, including developing the glass for Thomas Edison's light bulb. Corning was the glass supplier for lightbulbs for General Electric after Edison General Electric merged with Thomson-Houston Electric Company in 1892. [34]

5. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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   An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is either evacuated or filled with inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation. Electric current is supplied to the filament by terminals or wires ...

6. Guardian Industries - Wikipedia

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   Guardian Industries is a privately held industrial manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products based in Auburn Hills, Michigan.The company manufactures float glass, fabricated glass products, fiberglass insulation and building materials for commercial, residential and automotive applications.

7. Edison light bulb - Wikipedia

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   In the 1980s, after watching a salvage operation, Bob Rosenzweig started the reproduction and selling of his faux-antique bulbs. [9] These vintage-style light bulb reproductions were sold mostly to collectors and prop houses, and continued until the turn of the 21st century when new regulations banned low-efficiency lighting in many countries.