Sentence examples for electric illumination from inspiring English sources

For example, horse-drawn carriages give way to early electric illumination in "Broadway at Night".

Electric illumination in the form of carbon arc lamps was first employed at lighthouses at an early date, even while oil lamps were still in vogue.

John Millis: Forty-one years in the Engineers: navigation, lighthouses, river and harbor works; but also in charge of the first electric illumination of the Statue of Liberty.

He would be delighted now to see Japanese cities reducing the ubiquitous glare of neon lighting and all-night electric illumination, in a dimming of unnecessary lights which thereby reintroduces some of the shadows he so eloquently praises.

While a number of other European and American inventors were developing light bulbs at the same time, Thomas Edison succeeded in part because his conception of electric illumination was so deliberately conservative rather than revolutionary, based on familiar technology of gas distribution.

The reticle collimation optics are situated at 90° to the optical path making lighting difficult, usually needing additional electric illumination, condensing lenses, etc.

In American Illuminations, David Nye explains how they experimented with gas and electric light to create illuminated cityscapes far brighter and more dynamic than those of Europe, and how these illuminations became symbols of modernity and the conquest of nature.

In their most general form, SERS tags are composed of a plasmonic nanoparticle that generates a strong electric field upon illumination with an appropriate light source, a Raman-active compound that confers a distinct spectral signature, and a stabilizing coating that also provides a surface for functionalization with a molecular recognition element such as an antibody.

No natural light is usually provided to these lift lobbies, which depend on electric lighting for illumination.

The boxes were equipped with an electric bulb for illumination and a measuring device (a far-infrared apparatus or a running wheel) (Bio-Medica, Japan) to monitor the behavioral activities of the mouse.

For example, protonemata (primary germinating structures in development from spores) of ferns and mosses have preferential orientation according to electric vector of illumination.