scholarly journals The Incandescent Light Bulb and the Mystery of the Centennial Bulb

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Light Bulb ◽  
Incandescent Light

“Impossible to stop just now. Why, if I could only prove one simple little lemma”

Propelled ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Andreas Elpidorou
Keyword(s):  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Light Bulb ◽  
Incandescent Light ◽  
Fermat's Last Theorem ◽  
Fermat’S Last Theorem

By presenting real stories of frustrations, failures, and successes—Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, Keith Jarrett’s unforgettable 1975 Köln performance, and Thomas Edison’s struggles with the incandescent light bulb, among others—the chapter further investigates the value and importance of frustration. Whereas Chapter 6 was concerned with articulating the motivational value of frustration, this chapter demonstrates the capacity of frustration to structure our lives and to endow them with significance and personal meaning. Specifically, the chapter describes how what we experience as frustrating, difficult, and effortful can often become valuable precisely because it is frustrating, difficult, and effortful to us. The chapter thus makes clear that the experience of frustration can lead to the generation of value and argues that a life devoid of frustrations runs the risk of becoming meaningless.

scholarly journals Efficacy of Insecticides Against Thrips on Dendrobium, Hi, 1994

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Y. Hata ◽  
A. H. Hara ◽  
Ben K. S. Hu
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Treatment Efficacy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Basaltic Rock ◽  
Light Bulb ◽  
Incandescent Light ◽  
Newport News ◽  
Four Blocks ◽  
Experimental Plots

Abstract Tests were conducted from 14 Jul through 8 Sep 1994 on 8 year old orchid plants at a commercial dendrobium farm in Kailua-Kona. Plants were growing in 1.3 cm crushed basaltic rock under 30% polypropylene shade using standard cultural practices. Experimental plots measured 40 ft2 with 58 plants per plot arranged in a RCB with four blocks. Four weekly applications of insecticides were applied beginning 14 Jul and ending 4 Aug. A spreader-sticker (Ad-here, J. R. Simplot, Lanthrop, CA) was added to all foliar treatments, including the control, at a rate of 0.5 ml per liter solution. Insecticides were applied at 1,345 liters/ha using a backpack sprayer (Solo Inc., Newport News, VA) equipped with an 8004 Teejet nozzle (Spraying systems Co. Wheaton, IL) at 276 KPa. The control was sprayed with water. Treatment efficacy was evaluated by randomly harvesting 5 inflorescences weekly from each block. Blossoms were removed from the inflorescences, counted, and placed in Berlese funnels heated with a 60 watt incandescent light bulb. Thrips were collected in an 8:2:1:1 solution of ethanol, distilled H20, acetic acid and glycerin, and the number of nymphs and adults counted. Because the number of blossoms per inflorescences varied, thrips counts were adjusted to the number of thrips per blossom by dividing the total number of thrips recovered by the total number of blossoms. Data were transformed to log,0(x + 1) and analyzed by ANOVA.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIABILITY OF AN INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB

2000 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas H. Timmer
Keyword(s):  
Light Bulb ◽  
Incandescent Light

scholarly journals The incandescent light bulb phase-out: exploring patterns of framing the governance of discontinuing a socio-technical regime

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Stegmaier ◽  
Vincent R. Visser ◽  
Stefan Kuhlmann
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Light Bulb ◽  
Incandescent Light ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Phase Out ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Research interest This paper aims at a better understanding of the governance of the abandonment of socio-technical regimes through the example of the incandescent light bulb phase-out in the European Union and in the Netherlands as one specific case where the EU discontinuation policy has been implemented. In particular, with this paper we focus on the active and intended discontinuation of a socio-technical regime through dedicated governance. Methods We approached the phase-out of the incandescent light bulb from a qualitative perspective and analysed about 230 documents from the EU and Dutch level. The study has an explorative character, for we cannot claim to describe the entire policy process, but bring to surface some key issues in order to outline both governance foci and technicalities of governing the phase-out. We looked into how governance makers were actually structuring the ILB phase-out as a governance task. The specific framings we found were grouped into the (a) spectrum of governance dimensions, (b) the more detailed problem-types raised, and (c) the array of discontinuation issues addressed in policy discourse dedicated to negotiating, drafting and implementing the phase-out measures. Results A set of frames apparent in the discontinuation discourses in the EU and the Netherlands has been reconstructed, which entails the five governance dimensions ‘policy instruments’, ‘implementation’, ‘strictness’, ‘monitoring’, and ‘policy level’. Technical details of both the socio-technical products to be banned and the replacing products have been the subject of meticulous negotiations in order to be able to implement the big picture, the lightbulb ban, appropriately and appropriately for both industry and environmental associations. The design of discontinuation governance at national and EU level are closely intertwined, but not identical in all aspects. The complexity of the governance task is therefore high. Conclusions Discontinuation has to cope with some resistance to dedicated, forced change that takes place in a technically as well as socially highly complex context. Governing the phase-out of a technical device, a production infrastructure, and industry support policy once supposed to support the EU and Dutch ILB industry was a major techno-political challenge, where policymakers needed to grasp key technical and technological problems. These were related to ILBs as objects, to subjects such as engineers and scientists, lobbyists and disinterested experts, to civil society organisations and mass media, along with all sorts of political and administrative issues and discourses. The challenges are threefold: first, translating for each other what cannot be known from one’s own background, second, shutting down governance which so far fostered lighting industry and, third, helping to change parts of this industry from an old, incumbent one to a new, emerging socio-technical regime with a regime providing a political and regulatory framework for it.

Bistability and Fluctuations for an Incandescent Light Bulb

1995 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 844-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Keizer ◽  
L. W. Maki ◽  
J. Greathouse ◽  
G. Smith ◽  
P. J. Bruinsma
Keyword(s):  
Light Bulb ◽  
Incandescent Light
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