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eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
The slide images were too small for unaided viewing, and required enlargement by a projector or enlarging viewer. Photographic film slides and projectors have been replaced by image files on digital storage media shown on a projection screen by using a video projector , or displayed on a large-screen video monitor .
A garden solar lamp A child in Zambia studying by the light of a lamp charged by solar power during the day. A solar lamp, also known as a solar light or solar lantern, is a lighting system composed of an LED lamp, solar panels, battery, charge controller and there may also be an inverter.
Kerosene lamp, using kerosene as a fuel; Electric lamp, or light bulb, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity; Light fixture, or light fitting or luminaire, is an electrical device containing an electric lamp that provides illumination; Signal lamp, or Aldis lamp or Morse lamp, a semaphore system for optical communication
These lamps have handles, short, plain nozzles, and less artistic finishing. Frog This is a regional style lamp exclusively produced in Egypt and found in the regions around it, between c. 100 and 300 AD. The frog is an Egyptian fertility symbol. African Red Slip Lamps made in North Africa, but widely exported, decorated in a red slip.
While indirect lighting can create a diffused and shadow free light effect it can be regarded as an uneconomical lighting principle. [12] [13] Front lighting is also quite common, but tends to make the subject look flat as its casts almost no visible shadows. Lighting from the side is the less common, as it tends to produce glare near eye level.
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In New Orleans, arc lamps were used for street lighting starting in 1881. In 1882, the New Orleans Brush Lighting Company installed one hundred 2,000-candlepower arc lamps along five miles of wharf and riverfront; by 1885, New Orleans had 655 arc lights. [1] In Chicago, arc lamps were used in public street lighting starting in 1887. [1]