Filaments
['fɪləmənt]
Examples
- 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.
- In exhausted air carbon rods or filaments are not consumed, and so great ingenuity was exercised on that line. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A great variety of methods for coating incandescent lamp filaments with silicon, titanium, chromium, osmium, boron, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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