If you want to escape the present, which by the end of 2008 I was all too eager to do, these incandescent works provide about as good a form of time-travel as exists.
In the living room, for example, where there are four recessed lights along one wall, Mr. Chipman tested six dimmable bulbs and determined that one made by Greenlite with the same hue as incandescents worked best in certain spots, attractively lighting an exposed brick wall and maple bookshelves.
It simply requires that companies make some of their incandescent bulbs work a bit better, meeting a series of rolling deadlines between 2012 and 2014.
Ciaran Cassidy, a building contractor who lives in Westchester County, N.Y., said Friday that he did not trust that the alternatives to incandescents would work as advertised, either in terms of longevity or in his electric bills.
The American inventor Thomas Edison, who tested thousands of materials before he chose bamboo to make the carbon filament for his incandescent lightbulb, described his work as "one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration".
But the color just isn't the same as incandescents, they don't work well for spot lighting and for now they don't work with dimmer switches.
As part of its 85th season, the series is presenting the Emerson String Quartet in a program that includes a work by Joan Tower, "Incandescent," as well as Haydn's Quartet in D (Op. 76, No. 5) and Smetana's Quartet in E minor.
The incandescent screw-in model will work, but will require more than one bulb, and these burn out constantly.
They're looking for a variety of signs of possible damage, like incandescent light bulbs that stop working because their filaments have been shaken.
You, illuminated by the incandescent bulbs of your shared work-space, are an intricate blessing, God's greatest design, the final product.
