Filament

Examples

• We had already managed to get pretty high vacua, and we thought, maybe, the filament would be stable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The funny part of it was that I never thought in those days that a carbon filament would answer, because a fine hair of carbon was so sensitive to oxidation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Among the early noted inventors of incandescent carbon filament lamps were Edison and Maxim of New York, Swan, and Lane-Fox of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Glancing at it, he fell to wondering how it would serve as a filament for his light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After that exhibition we had a house-cleaning at the laboratory, and the metallic-filament lamps were stored away, while preparations were made for our experiments on carbon lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The announcement of the invention of the carbon filament lamp was first made to the public in December, 1879. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For example, the early filament made of a mixture of lampblack and tar is merely a suggestion in the notes, but its making afforded an example of Edison's pertinacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This is the inventor’s own statement, but it gives a very meagre notion of the many months’ experimenting in his workshop while he hunted for a suitable filament for his electric light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hardly any one outside of Edison’s own laboratory knew anything about electric lighting, and there were only a few of them who could be trusted to put a carbon filament in an exhausted globe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It made a filament that gave better results than any of the others. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The next immediate step was a further investigation of the possibilities of improving the quality of the carbon filament. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Osmium from a volatile compound of same thus deposited makes a filament as good as carbon when in vacuo. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After some changes dictated by experience, this artificial filament was adopted in the manufacture of lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We have seen the mineral and vegetable kingdoms rifled and ransacked for substances that would yield the best filament. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The distinctive features of this lamp consisted in a bowed filament of carbon of very thin, thread-like character, which was made of paper or carbonized cellulose. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had even determined upon bamboo as the best material for filaments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I was making some stuff to squirt into filaments for the incandescent lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The use of Japanese bamboo for carbon filaments was therefore continued in the manufacture of lamps, although an incessant search was maintained for a still more perfect material. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I think they're so beautiful,' she said, moving close to Birkin, and pointing to the red filaments with her long, white finger. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This necessitated first the devising and making of a large number of special tools for cutting the carbon filaments and for making and putting together the various parts of the lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The last few years have witnessed a remarkable advance in the manufacture of incandescent lamps in the substitution of metallic filaments for those of carbon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of the laboratory assistants was told to make some of this mixture, knead it, and roll some filaments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Several methods of making squirted filaments of a variety of materials, of which about thirty are specified. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Several methods of making porous filaments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The use of this bamboo for Edison lamp filaments was continued for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• During the last four or five years lamps with filaments made from tantalum and tungsten have been produced and placed on the market with great success, and are now largely used. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He examined this, and then gave it to one of his assistants, telling him to cut it up and get out of it all the filaments he could, carbonize them, put them into lamps, and try them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the early days I was experimenting with metallic filaments for the incandescent light, and sent a certain man out to California in search of platinum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Oddly enough, a few years later, some inventor actually took out a patent for making incandescent lamps with carbonized hair for filaments! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Filaments of carbon placed in a combustion tube with a little chloride ammonium. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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