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  • Thumbnail for Sconce (light fixture)
    Using brackets, the candle or gas flame would be kept at safe distance from the wall and ceiling. Modern electric light fixture sconces are often used in...
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    A light fixture (US English), light fitting (UK English), or luminaire is an electrical lighting device containing one or more light sources, such as...
    13 KB (1,487 words) - 02:34, 9 April 2024
  • This prevents sewer gas from entering buildings. Most water closets, bidets, and many urinals have the trap integral with the fixture itself. The visible...
    8 KB (1,042 words) - 18:48, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fixture (tool)
    A fixture is a work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry. Fixtures are used to securely locate (position in a specific location...
    12 KB (1,558 words) - 14:52, 10 July 2024
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    practical. When gas lighting was prevalent, the most common fuels for gas lighting were wood gas, coal gas and, in limited cases, water gas. Early gas lights were...
    56 KB (7,054 words) - 19:06, 9 July 2024
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    distribute water through buildings. Every fixture is required to have an internal or external trap to prevent sewer gases from entering a structure; double trapping...
    12 KB (1,672 words) - 23:28, 3 June 2024
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    arc to be struck, short circuiting the incandescent filament. As with all gas-discharge lamps, low- and high-pressure mercury lamps exhibit negative resistance...
    8 KB (984 words) - 09:22, 9 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eliphalet Williams Bliss
    President of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, and was Director of the Brooklyn Gas Fixture Company and the Kings County Trust Company. Bliss died on July 21, 1903...
    6 KB (623 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2023
  • Laboratories) approved. New Orleans-based Bevolo Gas and Electric Lights expands its light fixture business worldwide ‘’New Orleans City Business’’ via...
    6 KB (470 words) - 12:02, 4 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Stanley Hotel
    from the lighting to the kitchens (although some fixtures could be operated with either electricity or gas). To supply his hotel with power, Stanley led...
    38 KB (4,664 words) - 12:29, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sewer gas
    addition, plumbing vents allow sewer gases to be exhausted outdoors. Infrequently used plumbing fixtures may allow sewer gas to enter a home due to evaporation...
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  • Thumbnail for Gas mantle
    An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating incandescent bright white light when heated by a flame. The name...
    13 KB (1,659 words) - 07:34, 3 July 2024
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    technician in adjusting the fixture. Most venues require an additional metal safety cable or chain to be attached between the fixture and its truss, or other...
    35 KB (4,754 words) - 06:02, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbide lamp
    and allowed to drip on the pellets releasing acetylene. This gas was piped to light fixtures inside the house, where it was burned, creating a very bright...
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  • Thumbnail for Fixture (property law)
    A fixture, as a legal concept, means any physical property that is permanently attached (fixed) to real property (usually land). Property not affixed...
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    Lighting (section Fixtures)
    includes the use of both artificial light sources like lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight. Daylighting (using...
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  • Bartlett street lamp (category Light fixtures)
    electric gas cock and lighter, which was controlled by the hand and which could be adjusted upon any gas fixture. The second was an automatic gas cock and...
    3 KB (480 words) - 14:19, 28 December 2023
  • While fighting off the invader, Talcott swung a chair, which struck a gas fixture, causing an explosion that injured him severely and from which he never...
    6 KB (674 words) - 01:02, 3 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gas-discharge lamp
    Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically...
    29 KB (3,316 words) - 13:22, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Archer & Pancoast Manufacturing Company
    Archer & Pancoast Manufacturing Company was a US gas fixtures manufacturing company. It was located at No. 67 Greene Street, and Nos. 68 to 74 Wooster...
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