Fluorescent lights, laptop computers and gas-powered refrigerators save electricity, although gas-powered refrigerators are not very efficient.

* Fluorescent lamp starters, used to initiate operation of fluorescent lights

* Overdriving Fluorescent Lights by Jim Haworth-This site explains in depth the theory and methods for overdriving fluorescent lights.

Fluorescent orange jackets, known as " fire-flies ", were issued to track workers on the Pollokshields to electrified section in Glasgow ; they were later tried in other areas, such as Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness.

Fluorescent lamp sets were produced for a limited time by Sylvania in the mid-1940s.

Two reflective Fluorescent Red 3M Scotchcal 12 inch square panels were applied at each body end.

* 1981 Philips sells their first Compact Fluorescent Energy Saving Lamps, with integrated conventional ballast

Fluorescent lighting has more color temperatures available which are more suited to aquariums than those of incandescent bulbs.

Fluorescent emission peaks at around 450nm ( looking bright blue / cyan ).

Trey Anastasio Band debuted in 1998 as Eight Foot Fluorescent Tubes as a local band in Vermont fronted by Anastasio on April 17 of that year at the nightclub Higher Ground, co-owned by his brother-in-law.

Fluorescent dyes can be chosen to obtain light emission at different wavelengths, and compounds such as perylene, rubrene and quinacridone derivatives are often used.

General Electric Corporation held the patent to the fluorescent light bulb at the time and approximately a year later, the original three major corporations, Lightolier, Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, and Globe Lighting located mostly in the New York City region, began wide-scale manufacturing in the United States of the fluorescent light fixture, making fluorescent lighting possible and commonplace in most industrial, office, retail, and residential settings around the nation and the world in years to come.

Also at WSU are the Harold E. Culver Collection, with fossils of pre-historic animals ; the Lyle and Lela Jacklin Collection of Silicified Wood & Minerals ; and S. Elroy McCaw Fluorescent Mineral Display.

Fluorescent lamps using conventional magnetic ballasts flicker at twice the supply frequency.

* Jones, Jr., Robert W. Nature's Hidden Rainbows: The Fluorescent Minerals of Franklin, New Jersey ( San Gabriel, CA: Ultra-Violet Products, Inc., 1964 ).

* " New Jack Exterminator " by Antipop Consortium on Fluorescent Black ( 2009 )

Fluorescent acrylic paints lit by UV light.

Fluorescent paint and plastic lit by UV tube s. Paintings by Beo Beyond

Fluorescent lighting is more energy-efficient than incandescent lighting elements.

* Biotechnology: biosensors using fluorescence are being studied as possible Fluorescent glucose biosensors.

Fluorescent activity is a short term or rapid emission response, unlike phosphorescence, which is a delayed emission.

Fluorescent dyes are used to label cellular compartments for a similar purpose.

Fluorescent inhibitors have also been developed to specifically label the active sites of the assembled proteasome.

Fluorescent protein constructs can be introduced through transformation.

Fluorescent mini-tufts attached to a wing in the Kirsten Wind Tunnel showing air flow direction and separation.

( Fluorescent cerise, fluorescent chartreuse yellow, fluorescent blue, and fluorescent green.

Fluorescent imaging techniques, as well as electron microscopy, x-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy ( AFM ) are often used to visualize structures of biological significance.

An example of a Green Fluorescent Protein | GFP fusion protein.

* 1938 Lightolier, Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, Globe, fluorescent fixture making.

Franklin, known as the " Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World ," is located over a rich ore body containing more than 150 minerals, many of them fluorescent and 25 of which are found nowhere else on earth.

* Truran, William R. Mining for America: the Franklin-Sterling Hill, N. J. Zinc ; The Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World.

Karyogram from a human female lymphocyte probed for the Alu sequence using Fluorescent in situ hybridization | FISH.

The Trio in 1999 was an evolution of Eight Foot Fluorescent Tubes.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

As the lights came up, Andy could see that a number of patrons were already on their way toward the exit.

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.

Electric lights were in use by 1888.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

The lights were like large pylons towering 50 metres over the ground and were similar in appearance to those at the WACA.

Except in times of danger, the lights were to be placed outside one's door, on the opposite side of the Mezuza, or in the window closest to the street.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

The racks were themselves packaged into a single large mainframe case, with a hexagonal control panel containing switches and lights mounted to lay at table-top height at one end of the mainframe.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

The main sources used were modified arc lights made for street lighting.

Large mercury vapour tube lights ( Cooper-Hewitts ) were also used in racks placed in the same way.

Two days after her death, the lights of the Empire State Building were extinguished for 15 minutes in her memory.

* In 1947, arc lights were installed at Fenway Park.

The Boston Red Sox were the third-to-last team out of 16 major league teams to have lights in their home park.

Sound, lights, and visual setups were brought along to every gig of the tour.

Before modern strobe lights, lenses were used to concentrate the light from a continuous source.

In more modern lighthouses, electric lights and motor drives were used, generally powered by diesel electric generators.