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electric lamp [i¦lek·trik ′lamp] (electricity) A lamp in which light is produced by electricity, as the incandescent lamp, arc lamp, glow lamp, mercury-vapor lamp, and fluorescent lamp. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I took out the list of Professor Challenger's exploits, and I read it over under the electric lamp. There was a noise of business from the gasworks, and the electric lamps were all alight. It appeared that this was a great manufacturing place, where the people were engaged in making things, as though the West End, with its electric lamps, its vast plate-glass windows all shining yellow, its carefully-finished houses, and tiny live figures trotting on the pavement, or bowled along on wheels in the road, was the finished work. |
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