Sentence examples for electric-light bulb from inspiring English sources
Somersault past Menlo Park, New Jersey, where Thomas Edison invented the commercial electric-light bulb, and Buffalo, New York, where President McKinley was shot by an anarchist.
The New Yorker, June 25 , 1932P. 7 Gentleman staying overnight in a Mid-western family hotel was annoyed to find that the only electric-light bulb in the room was dead.
By W. J. Delaney and James Thurber The New Yorker, June 25 , 1932P. 7 Gentleman staying overnight in a Mid-western family hotel was annoyed to find that the only electric-light bulb in the room was dead.
The big moths wheeling around electric-light bulbs aren't clothes moths.
The first electric-light bulbs were developed for use on board battleships.
By Emily Whitty and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, March 7 , 1953P. 23 The omniscience of life-insurance people is legendary but we didn't know until recently that it extends to electric-light bulbs.
An electric light bulb was self-starting, self-maintaining, cheap, efficient, clean and safe.
BRITAIN created the first electric light bulb and a pioneering national grid.
The electric light bulb has made darkness optional, eliminating the enforced idleness that used to begin at sunset.
We entered a small room with a single electric light bulb hanging overhead and several wooden benches along the walls.
When Cayne told Greenberg that he was a bridge player, Cayne tells Cohan, "you could see the electric light bulb".
