Sentence examples for electric lightbulbs from inspiring English sources
Tokyo Electric Light Company began manufacturing bamboo-filament electric lightbulbs in 1890, with Mitsui financing.
He can't explain why it didn't hurt him, but it just didn't, so he has been eating cocktail glasses, electric lightbulbs, and even table decorations ever since.
Production of the famous lamps did not begin until the late 1890s, at about the same time that electric lightbulbs were coming into more widespread use.
Joseph Swan, in full Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (born October 31, 1828, Sunderland, Durham, England died May 27, 1914, Warlingham, Surrey) English physicist and chemist who produced an early electric lightbulb and invented the dry photographic plate, an important improvement in photography and a step in the development of modern photographic film.
Thomas Wolfe remarked the "great slant beacons of moted light" at Grand Central Station; Truman Capote wrote that being in New York was "like living inside an electric lightbulb"; F Scott Fitzgerald called the sight of Manhattan "a miracle of foamy light suspended by the stars".
Some blame modern sleeplessness on the invention of the electric lightbulb - the fact that our days are no longer dictated by the rising and setting of the sun, that our stretches of darkness are now lit by the glare of the streetlight and the neon sign.
The telephone, the electric lightbulb, the internal combustion-driven vehicles, and the smart-phone are all engineering items that have had transformational impact.
The Middle Ages saw the development of the brazier (the metal pan atop a torch that holds the flaming material, la Lady Liberty); gaslight was introduced in the late 18th century; and in 1879 Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp — the familiar electric lightbulb that has illuminated our time.
The explosion prompts the pair of soldiers to glance up from their bowls of stew, their faces lit by a naked electric lightbulb.
