What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art ; whereby he-together with his first wife Aino Aalto-would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware.

In 1880, a stretch of Broadway between Union Square and Madison Square was illuminated by Brush arc lamps, making it among the first electrically lighted streets in the United States.

The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Mercury, metal halide and above all first generation of blue-light LED road luminaries are much more pollutant that sodium lamps: Earth atmosphere scatters and transmits blue light better than yellow or red light.

The first commercial LEDs were commonly used as replacements for incandescent and neon indicator lamps, and in seven-segment displays, first in expensive equipment such as laboratory and electronics test equipment, then later in such appliances as TVs, radios, telephones, calculators, and even watches ( see list of signal uses ).

He was the inventor of the first street lights ( oil lamps ) in Copenhagen, and worked hard to try to control the beggars, poor people, unemployed, and prostitutes of Copenhagen.

Annemarie Schneider, a 19-year-old secretary in a law firm in Rosenheim ( a town in southern Germany ) was seemingly the unwitting cause of much chaos and controversy in the firm, including disruption of electricity and telephone lines, the rotation of a picture, swinging lamps which were captured on video ( which was one of the first times any poltergeist activity has been captured on film ), and strange sounds that sounded electrical in origin were recorded.

In his first year, the plant under General Manager Francis Robbins Upton turned out 50, 000 lamps.

Mahen Theatre in Brno ( in what is now the Czech Republic ) was the first public building in the world to use Edison's electric lamps, with the installation supervised by Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, Francis Jehl.

* September – The first organised street lighting was introduced in London with oil lamps to be lit outside every tenth house on moonless winter nights.

Although the first gas street lamps were installed in Paris, London, and Berlin at the beginning of the 1820s and the first U. S. patent on a gas stove was granted in 1825, it was not until the late 19th century that using gas for lighting and cooking became commonplace in urban areas.

Quartz iodine lamps, using elemental iodine, were the first commercial halogen lamps launched by GE in 1959.

* c. 1000 The first street lamps appear in Cordoba, Al-Andalus

The second company, Hakunetsusha, was established in 1890 and was Japan's first producer of incandescent electric lamps.

The lakes were used to generate hydro-electricity, and the house was the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity, using incandescent lamps provided by the inventor Joseph Swan.

It was the first mainland European city to be lit by electric street lamps in 1884.

The world's first electroluminescent billboard campaign, Canada, Winter 2005Electroluminescent technologies have low power consumption compared to competing lighting technologies, such as neon or fluorescent lamps.

Tiffany's first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895.

In 1888 first telephone lines were opened, in 1900-gas street lamps, and in 1911-power plant and water system.

The first electric street lamps appeared on May 7, 1910 with the acquisition of a dozen electric street lamps from Illinois Valley Gas and Electric.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

The funds recouped by reductions in item 12 above are used: first, to increase the unadjusted allotments to the specified minimum in those States where the unadjusted allotment is less than the minimum allotment ( item 13 above ) ; ;

The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.

The address of the first cell and the number of cells used is written in the information cell for the form.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It will not, however, be used for symbolic assignment until all other index words or electronic switches have been assigned for the first time.

The first item in the operand, IOCSIXF, is used to specify the first IOCS index word for programs using tape files.

I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

I have been using the word `` vocational '' as a layman would at first sight think it should be used.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

ASCII itself was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX ( TeletypeWriter eXchange ) network.

He used one of the cow's intestines and the tortoise shell and made the first lyre.

Regression is first used to fit more

The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.