Philosophy
I guess they are gone now.
The bubbling light was created in 1935 by Carl Otis, and his later patents improved the design over the years. The lights worked by heating a vial of low-boiling liquid (lightweight oil, in early versions) with a hidden incandescent bulb. Modern lights use dichloromethane as the fluid, but the design remains essentially unchanged. NOMA bought Otis’ designs but wasn’t able to market the whimsical lights until after World War II, first seeing sales success in 1947. To ensure the safety of lights, NOMA developed and marketed tiny fuses in 1951 that could be easily replaced. The small, vial-like devices are common to almost all decorative lights today.
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Philosophy
Bubble lights on the tree
I guess they are gone now.
The bubbling light was created in 1935 by Carl Otis, and his later patents improved the design over the years. The lights worked by heating a vial of low-boiling liquid (lightweight oil, in early versions) with a hidden incandescent bulb. Modern lights use dichloromethane as the fluid, but the design remains essentially unchanged. NOMA bought Otis’ designs but wasn’t able to market the whimsical lights until after World War II, first seeing sales success in 1947. To ensure the safety of lights, NOMA developed and marketed tiny fuses in 1951 that could be easily replaced. The small, vial-like devices are common to almost all decorative lights today.
- Is Being Kind Always Morally Good?
You see a speed trap set up for the folks in the other lane. Do you flash your lights and alert them? If so, was it a good act? You get nothing from it. It was a purely other-directed action. The desire was to keep those folks on the other side from getting...
- Cosmos: Traveller's Tales
Humans like to travel. We are driven to discovery by an instinct of curiosity we simply can't fight. We did it in previous centuries, eventually populating every corner of the globe, and we are still doing it now, visiting and studying planets that...
- Northern Lights...internet Feed 3-14-2012
Watch a Live Feed of Tonight’s Northern Lights...
- Vulnerable...the Electrical Infrastructure
"Why's power hard-wired? Dollars and physics" by Adam Geller November 2nd, 2011 The Associated Press With our wireless Internet connections and far-ranging cell phones, it's easy to forget the hard-wired electricity that powers our homes and...
- Natalie King And The Smart Plant Pot
I would say that she has a strong future in industrial designing. "Intelligent plant container could become top of the pots" Industrial design student Natalie King has drafted a pot that glows and shakes when the plant needs attention by Steven Morris...