A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 632
er candlepower. The Edison lamps are of high efficiencyif 3.1 watts per c. p., and of low efficiency ifgreater. Lamp, Electric Stopper A term nowgenerally em-ployed for an in-candescent elec-tric lamp in whichthe chamber isstopped, not asformerly by thefusion of theglass, but by theaction of a… … Fig. 578. ElectricLamp. The term glow lamp is already generally em-ployed in England and Germany for the ordinary-incandescent electric lamp. It would appear thatthe term incandescent lamp generally employedin America is preferable. The term glow-lampshould be limited, as above, to a lamp…
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