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  2. Lampshade - Wikipedia

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    Two modern electric lamps with lampshades. A lampshade is a fixture that envelops the light bulb on a lamp to redirect the light it emits. The shade is often affixed onto a light fixture to reduce the intensity of the light to observers, shield the light from a harsh environment, or for decoration by altering the color or creating shadows.

  3. Wedge base - Wikipedia

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    The wires are usually inserted into a plastic base that the bulb is mounted in, and which is often narrower at the tip than at the bulb, giving it a wedge shape and usually ensuring a tight connection, depending on manufacturing tolerances. Some bulbs have no plastic base, and the wires are simply bent up to the sides of the bulb's glass base.

  4. Lampshades made from human skin - Wikipedia

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    Some human remains at Buchenwald, [1] including a lampshade made of human skin. [2]There are two notable reported instances of lampshades made from human skin.After World War II it was claimed that Nazis had made at least one lampshade from murdered concentration camp inmates: a human skin lampshade was displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch ...

  5. Window covering - Wikipedia

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    The color, as well as aperture size, known as Openness Factor, or OF, are two variables of fabric shades that can change view clarity perception. Darker fabric shades with larger openness factors generally achieve higher view clarity. [5] The impact of window coverings on view quality is of interest for designers, manufacturers, and researchers.

  6. Gas mantle - Wikipedia

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    Gas mantle in a street lamp (cold) Mantles in their unused flat-packed form. To produce a mantle, cotton is woven or knit into a net bag, impregnated with soluble nitrates of the chosen metals, and then transported to its destination. The user installs the mantle and then burns it to remove the cotton bag and convert the metal nitrates to ...