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light bulb

noun

  1. an electric light.


light bulb

noun

  1. a glass bulb containing a gas, such as argon or nitrogen, at low pressure and enclosing a thin metal filament that emits light when an electric current is passed through it Sometimes shortened tobulb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of light bulb1

First recorded in 1880–85
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At home he shares one light bulb between the two rooms that make up the small house.

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They had to constantly clean the house and change every light bulb in the home to bright white for filming purposes, she said.

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"A human being's like a light bulb. And we enjoy that light inside, but we also radiate it. We affect our environment. Everybody knows that," he says in the clip.

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MIT physicist William Coolidge had discovered tungsten’s laudable properties for light bulbs and later for X-ray tubes, and for nearly a dozen years, until about 1920, Atolia, the desert mining town that tungsten built, thrived.

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She’d often mix her mayo with Marconi hot giardiniera relish to make her own sauce, which sparked the light bulb moment.

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