After public protests over the extinguishing, the lights were made brighter and turned back on.
Arc lamps can only be made brighter by making them bigger, which makes the light harder to control.
When the lights in the factory being monitored were made brighter, productivity improved, as you might expect.
For example, "colors had to be made brighter to look good on camera," said Genevieve Linnehan of the center.
Skies are made brighter, animals become flawless, grass is made to look greener and, in a recent issue of Women's Health, sheep were made to look whiter.
The museum label explains: "The large black boxes on each end represent the dark side of life, which could be made brighter only through headhunting and hosting feasts of merit.
The author is, in the end, to be commended for recovering the vitality of the movement for radical reform that 100 years ago energized men and women to enter the public arena, united only by their middle-class status, their fierce discontent with the way things were and their faith that the future could be made brighter.
Indeed, the lights that appeared dark that night were turned on, using an "off-season" scheme that is easier to see later at night, Ms. Schwendinger said later, and could be made brighter for a fraction of the cost of redesigning the lights completely.
LEDs have been used since the 1960s in calculators, VCRs and the like, but scientists have long predicted that LEDs could be a source of illumination if they can be made brighter.
LEDs have been used since the 1960s in calculators, VCRs and the like, but scientists have long predicted LEDs could be a source of illumination if they could be made brighter.
