Sentence examples for modern incandescent from inspiring English sources

The thousand-hour life span of the modern incandescent dates to 1924, when representatives from the world's largest lighting companies — including such familiar names as Philips, Osram, and General Electric (which took over Shelby Electric circa 1912) — met in Switzerland to form Phoebus, arguably the first cartel with global reach.

Paradoxically, this is the very problem that the short life span of modern incandescents was meant to solve.

And, paradoxically, this is the very problem that the short life span of modern incandescents was meant to solve.

Even modern incandescents can turn about 90% of the energy they take in into heat, which is obviously wasteful and inefficient in the extreme.

Two basic types of lighting are used in modern interiors: incandescent and fluorescent.

He plans, for example, to replace the Met's hugely popular production of "Tosca," a Zeffirelli extravaganza, with something grippingly modern for the incandescent soprano Karita Mattila, possibly directed by George C. Wolfe.

Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book discussing the growth of lighting from old-timey incandescents to modern LED technology.

Future development of the research will be aimed to generalize the methodology adapted to interharmonic components at frequencies higher than 100 Hz which is proven to affect modern lighting systems different from incandescent bulbs.

So, if you're looking for a distinction between sunlight and candlelight (as Zack originally noted) or sunlight and an incandescent bulb (for more modern vampires), the key distinction between them is the temperature.

The Caltech researchers returned to the idea of vacuum tubes several years ago after they had begun experimenting with the idea of making ultrasmall incandescent light bulbs no larger than a modern transistor that would be bright enough to be seen by the naked eye from across a room.

Although some early proponents of DST aimed to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting (formerly a primary use of electricity ), modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory.