Electric Lighting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: electric lighting Page: 2Lightning
A discharge of atmospheric electricity accompanied by a vivid flash of light commonly from one cloud to another sometimes from a cloud to the earth The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder...
Photophore
A form of endoscope using an electric light...
Electricals
Electricals, the expression 'electricals' is somewhat vague. But in a factory manufacturing cotton and other textiles, certain electrical equipment in the present stage of development would be commer-cially necessary. Without electric lighting it would be very difficult to carry on the business. Again electrical humidifiers, exhaust fans and similar electrical equipment would in the modern conditions of technological development normally be regarded as equipment necessary to effectually carry on the manufacturing process, J.K. Cotton Spg. & Wvg. Mills Co. Ltd. v. S.T.O., AIR 1965 SC 1310 (1313): (1965) 1 SCR 900. [Central Sales Tax Act, 1956, s. 8]...
Vibration
Vibration. This may amount to a nuisance, but regard must be had to the character of the locality, Polsue, etc., Ltd. v. Rushmer, 1907 AC 121, and the aggrieved person is usually entitled to an injunc-tion as well as damages, Shelfer v. City of London Electric Lighting Co., (1895) 1 Ch 287....
Red light
an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection Each set of lights typically has a colored red light and also green and amber lights the color of the light which is lighted at any one time changes automatically to control the flow of traffic through the intersection allowing flow from different directions in alternating succession Also called traffic light traffic signal or stop light When the red light is illuminated the signal means to stop green means to go and amber means to stop or procede through the intersection with caution In simple intersections of two roads a red light visible to traffic on one road will usually be accompanied by a green light visible to traffic on the intersecting road In some locations the lights may be set to be illuminated in other sequences or combinations a blinking red light is typically equivalent to a ldq...
lightbulb
A glass bulb with metallic contacts on the outside connected to a wire filament usually tungsten inside that emits light when heated by passage of electricity through the filament used as the replaceable light emitting component of an electric lamp flashlight lighting fixture etc...
Lighting arrestor
Lighting arrestor, means a device which has the property of diverting to earth any electrical surge of excessively high amplitude applied to its terminals and is capable of interrupting follow current if present and restoring itself thereafter to its original operating conditions. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (aa)]...
Photo electricity
Electricity produced by light...
Photo electric cell
A cell as one of two electrodes embedded in selenium which by exposure to light generates an electric current...
Selenium
A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group of atomic number 34 analogous to sulphur in its compounds It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass or as a dark metallic looking substance It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity and is used in certain electric apparatus Symbol Se Atomic weight 7896...
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