For the science fiction novel with the same name Incandescence novel Image Hot metalwork.jpg 250px thumb right Hot metal work glows with visible light. This thermal radiation also extends into the infrared , invisible to the human eye and the camera the image was taken with, but an infrared camera could show it See Thermography . Image Incandescence.jpg thumb 250px The incandescent metal embers of the spark used to light this Bunsen burner emit light ranging in color from white to orange to red or to blue. This change correlates with their temperature as they cool in the air. The flame itself is not incandescent, as its Swan bands blue color is due to various other atomic and molecular energy transitions. The blue color comes from the quantized transitions that result from the oxidation of CH radicals. Incandescence is the emission of light visible electromagnetic radiation from a hot body as a result of its temperature. ref cite book title Treatise on Heat author Dionysius Lardner publisher Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman year 1833 url http books.google.com ?id jjYIAAAAIAAJ&pg PA341&dq incandescence becomes luminous quote The state in which a heated body, naturally incapable of emitting light, becomes luminous, is called a state of incandescence . ref The term derives ... ref Incandescence is a special case of thermal radiation . Incandescence usually refers specifically ... radiation . For a detailed discussion of the intensity and spectrum color of incandescence, see the article ... the Draper point . The incandescence does not vanish below that temperature, but it is too ... and its color changes from red towards white and finally blue. Incandescence is exploited in incandescent ... light sources, such as fluorescent lamp s and LED s, do not function by incandescence. Sunlight is the incandescence of the white hot surface of the sun . Figurative use The word incandescent is also ... Lichtausstrahlung el es Incandescencia fr Incandescence ko hi it Incandescenza ... more details
Infobox book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Incandescence title orig translator image prefer 1st edition image caption author Greg Egan illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Science fiction publisher Gollancz pub date 15 May 2008 english pub date media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages 304 pp isbn 978 0575081628 oclc 192027449 preceded by followed by Incandescence is a 2008 science fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan . The book is based on the idea that the theory of general relativity could be discovered by a pre industrial civilisation. ref cite web url http scalzi.com whatever ?p 1064 title The Big Idea last Egan first Greg date 2008 07 22 work Whatever publisher John Scalzi accessdate 2008 08 30 ref Plot summary The novel has two narratives in alternate chapters. The first follows two citizens of the Amalgam, a Milky Way spanning civilisation, investigating the origin ... INCANDESCENCE 00 Crocodile.html Riding the Crocodile . Criticism One review compared Incandescence ... of a black hole . ref name dw cite web url http www.dwscifi.com reviews 1957 incandescence title Incandescence Review last Simpson first Paul date 2008 05 09 work Total Sci Fi publisher Titan ... 09a ic279.htm title The SF Site Featured Review Incandescence last McCalmont first Jonathan date ... reviews 2008 06 incandescence b.shtml title Strange Horizons Reviews Incandescence by Greg Egan last ... Incandescence for its awkward prose and weak characterization. In response, Egan dissected the review ... hatchet cite web url http gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au INCANDESCENCE Z Hatchet.html title Anatomy ... Reflist External links http www.gregegan.net INCANDESCENCE Incandescence.html Greg Egan s Incandescence ... Magazine s Russell Letson reviews Greg Egan includes reviews of Incandescence , Glory and Riding the Crocodile . DEFAULTSORT Incandescence Category 2008 novels Category Novels by Greg Egan Category Australian ... more details
orphan date January 2010 For other uses, see LII . Laser induced incandescence LII is a non intrusive method of measuring time resolved soot particle volume fraction and primary particle sizes in flame s. See also Laser induced fluorescence Planar laser induced fluorescence Category Spectroscopy physics stub chemistry stub ... more details
wiktionary Aloof may refer to The Aloof , British music band or slang for hop scotch Fictional race in the sci fi novel Incandescence novel Incandescence by Greg Egan disamb ... more details
unreferenced date May 2011 Candoluminescence is the term used to describe the light given off by certain materials which have been heated to incandescence and emit a larger proportion of short wavelength light than would be expected for a typical blackbody radiator. The phenomenon is noted in certain transition metal and Rare earth element rare earth metal oxide materials ceramic s such as zinc oxide and cerium IV oxide cerium oxide or thorium dioxide , where some of the light from incandescence causes fluorescence of the material Citation needed date April 2010 . Calcium oxide also has this effect which is called limelight . The cause may also be due to direct thermal excitation of metal ions in the material. Candoluminescence may also sometimes be used informally to describe any material heated to incandescence specifically by a flame . The most common examples of candoluminescence can be found in the glowing cerium thorium ratio of 1 99 oxide mesh of a kerosene lamp mantle or gas mantle and in an old style Limelight. It is not clear that a separate physical phenomenon called candoluminescence is required to explain the behavior of Welsbach mantles or limelight. Thorium oxide has very low emissivity in the near infrared and visible parts of the spectrum. Without cooling by infrared radiation, a mantle can get closer to the flame temperature than can a black body material. The higher temperature leads to higher emission levels in the visible portion of the spectrum. Cerium dioxide was made part of the mantle composition to enhance radiative cooling by the emission of visible light. See also Incandescent light bulb References Reflist External links Category Luminescence physics stub ca Candoluminesc ncia pl Kandoluminescencja ru ... more details
LII may refer to 52 year , in Roman numerals 52 number , in Roman numerals Laser induced incandescence , a method of measuring particle sizes in flames Leaders in India , a business forum held annually in Mumbai, India Legal Information Institute , a non profit public service of Cornell Law School Logical Intuitive Introvert , one of the 16 classifications of people in socionics Gromov Flight Research Institute , a Russian aircraft test base , or LII, in Russian disambig Category Initialisms de LII eo LII it LII nl LII ... more details
White Heat may refer to In literature White Heat book White Heat book , a book by English chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White In motion pictures In film White Heat 1926 film White Heat 1926 film , a British film directed by Thomas Bentley White Heat 1934 , an American film directed by Lois Weber White Heat , a 1949 film starring James Cagney In television White Heat TV series White Heat TV series , a BBC 2012 TV series In music White Heat album White Heat album , a 1982 album by Dusty Springfield White Heat Switch White Heat Switch , a 1975 album from R&B group White Heat aka Switch White Light White Heat , a 1968 album by The Velvet Underground White Heat , a song from True Blue Madonna album True Blue Madonna album In technology White heat, One of the colors used to estimate an object s temperature from the color of incandescence see red heat Disambig de White Heat ... more details
The carbon button lamp is a single electrode incandescent lamp invented by Nikola Tesla as one of a few improved lighting sources with regards to Thomas Edison s Incandescent light bulb. A carbon button lamp contains a small carbon sphere positioned in the center of an evacuated glass bulb. This type of lamp must be driven by high frequency alternating current , and depends on an electric arc or perhaps a vacuum arc to produce high electric current current around the carbon electrode. The carbon electrode is then heated to incandescence by collisions by ions which constitute the electric current. Tesla found that these lamps could be used as powerful sources of ionizing radiation . In February, 1892, Tesla gave a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, in which he described the carbon button lamp in detail. He also described several variants of the lamp, one of which uses a ruby drop in place of the carbon button. Some enthusiasts have argued that this is an early ruby laser . See also List of light sources External links http www.tfcbooks.com tesla 1892 02 03.htm Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Tesla s lecture to the Institute of Electrical Engineers. Artificial light sources Category Lamps tech stub ... more details
wiktionary red hot red hot Red hot may refer to Red hot, the glowing color of a heated object between about 500 C and 800 C see Incandescence Red Hot film Red Hot film , a 1993 Canadian drama film directed by Paul Haggis Red Hots , a small cinnamon flavored candy Hot sauce , a spicy sauce made from chili peppers and other ingredients Frank s RedHot , a hot sauce produced by Reckitt Benckiser Hot dog , especially one sold at baseball games A Michigan hot dog , which is covered in a meat sauce Saveloy , a red, spicy sausage Red Hot , a 1957 song by Billy Lee Riley Red Hot , a song by M tley Cr e from their 1983 album Shout at the Devil Red Hot , a 1995 composition by Vanessa Mae Red Hot Debbie Gibson song Red Hot Debbie Gibson song Red Hot album Red Hot album , a 2004 album by RuPaul Red Hot Transformers , a fictional character, member of the Micromasters Red Hot TV UK , a softcore pornographic pay per view UK television network Red Hot TV Canada , a pornographic television network in Canada Red Hot Organization , an international organization that works on AIDS awareness Red Hot Blue , the first of a series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization Redhot & Blue , Yale University s oldest coeducational a cappella group Red Hot & Blue , a 1990 recording from Lee Atwater Red Hot & Blue restaurant , a barbecue restaurant franchise Red, Hot and Blue , a 1936 musical by Cole Porter, originally starring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope Red, Hot and Blue film Red, Hot and Blue film , a 1949 film based on the musical Red Hot Chili Peppers , an American funk rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers album The Red Hot Chili Peppers album , their 1984 debut album disambiguation fr Red Hot ... more details
Infobox animanga Header name Heat image File Heat cover.jpg 180px caption Cover of Heat Manga Vol. 1 ja kanji HEAT H TO SHAKUNETSU ja romaji Heat Incandescence genre Crime fiction Infobox animanga Print type manga author Buronson illustrator Ryoichi Ikegami publisher Shogakukan demographic Seinen manga Seinen magazine Big Comic Superior first 1999 last 2004 volumes 17 volume list Infobox animanga Footer nihongo Heat HEAT is a seinen manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami . It was serialized in Big Comic Superior from 1999 to 2004. In 2002, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. ref name ShogakukanAward cite web url http comics.shogakukan.co.jp mangasho rist.html title publisher Shogakukan language Japanese accessdate 2007 08 19 ref It was adapted into a live action movie in 2004 featuring Yoshihiko Hakamada , Takeshi Yoshioka , and Hakuryu as main actors. Heat is a crime story featuring a young man named Tatsumi Karasawa who suddenly rises in the criminal world of Shinjuku, Tokyo , and becomes the leader of a group of amateurs who show no reluctance to face police and gangs alike. His successes in the Tokyo underground make a chief and a yakuza boss plot a conspiracy to eliminate him. References reflist External links ann manga 2541 Heat DEFAULTSORT Heat Manga Category Crime anime and manga Category Seinen manga Category Shogakukan Manga Awards manga stub fr Heat manga ja HEAT ... more details
Maeve Berry is an award winning Citation needed date July 2009 Irish freelance photographer . Berry works as both a commercial and Fine art photography fine art photographer and is represented in London by Laura Noble Diemar Noble Photography Diemar Noble Photography . ref cite web url http www.diemarnoblephotography.com artists maeve berry.html title Artist Maeve Berry publisher Diemar Noble Photography date accessdate 2011 04 17 ref Shortlisted for the 2nd annual westPHOTO Antiga Photography Prize , ref cite web url http www.wmin.ac.uk mad page 1596 title Resource Login 1 publisher Wmin.ac.uk date accessdate 2011 04 17 ref Berry is best known By whom date April 2011 for her series Incandescence . Taken within a crematory , it is a response to other post mortem photography . ref cite web author Patrick McNally url http www.dailyundertaker.com 2009 07 maeve berry incandescence.html title The Daily Undertaker, The Variety and Importance of Ritual publisher Dailyundertaker.com date 2009 07 25 accessdate 2011 04 17 ref Four images from this series have been selected as part of the group exhibition DARKSIDE II Photographic Power and Violence, Illness and Death Photographed at Fotomuseum Winterthur , in Zurich, Switzerland. Citation needed date July 2009 References Reflist External links http www.maeveberry.com Artist website http www.diemarnoble.com Gallery Representation Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Berry, Maeve ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Photographer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Berry, Maeve Category Living people Ireland artist stub ... more details
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Image Luminol.jpg right thumb Luminol and haemoglobin , an example of chemiluminescence commons category Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat it is thus a form of cold body radiation . It can be caused by chemical reaction s, electrical energy , subatomic motions, or Stress physics stress on a crystal . This distinguishes luminescence from incandescence , which is light emitted by a substance as a result of heating. Historically, radioactivity was thought of as a form of radio luminescence , although it is today considered to be separate since it involves more than electromagnetic radiation. The term luminescence was introduced in 1888 by Eilhard Wiedemann . ref A Brief History of Fluorescence and Phosphorescence before the Emergence of Quantum Theory Bernard Valeur and Mrio N. Berberan Santos J. Chem. Educ., 2011, 88 6 , pp 731 738 DOI 10.1021 ed100182h ref The dials, hands, scales and signs of aviation and navigational instruments and markings are often coated with luminescent materials in a process known as luminising . The following are types of luminescence Bioluminescence , emission by a living organism Chemiluminescence , a result of a chemical reaction Electrochemiluminescence , a result of an electrochemical reaction Crystalloluminescence , produced during crystallization Electroluminescence , a result of an electric current passed through a substance Cathodoluminescence , a result of being struck by an electron Mechanoluminescence , a result of a mechanical action on a solid Triboluminescence , generated when bonds in a material are broken when that material is scratched, crushed, or rubbed Triboluminescence Fractoluminescence Fractoluminescence , generated when bonds in certain crystals are broken by fractures Piezoluminescence , produced by the action of pressure on certain solids ref Piezoluminescence phenomenon N. A. Atari Physics Letters A Volume 90, Issues 1 2, 21 June 1982, Pages 93 96 doi 10.1016 0375 9601 82 900 ... more details
Infobox mineral name Gadolinite boxwidth boxbgcolor image Gadolinitas.jpg imagesize alt caption Gadolinite category Nesosilicate formula Ce,La,Nd,Y sub 2 sub FeBe sub 2 sub Si sub 2 sub O sub 10 sub strunz 09.AJ.20 symmetry unit cell molweight color colour habit system twinning cleavage fracture tenacity mohs luster streak diaphaneity gravity density polish opticalprop refractive birefringence pleochroism 2V dispersion extinction length fast slow fluorescence absorption melt fusibility diagnostic solubility impurities alteration other prop1 prop1text references Gadolinite , sometimes also known as Ytterbite , is a silicate mineral which consists principally of the silicates of cerium , lanthanum , neodymium , yttrium , beryllium , and iron with the formula Ce,La,Nd,Y sub 2 sub FeBe sub 2 sub Si sub 2 sub O sub 10 sub . It is called gadolinite Ce or gadolinite Y depending on the prominence of the variable element composition namely, Y if it has more yttrium, and Ce if it has more cerium . It may contain 35.48 yttria sub group rare earths, 2.17 ceria earths, up to 11.6 BeO and traces of thorium. It is found in Sweden, Norway, and the USA Texas and Colorado . Characteristics Gadolinite is fairly rare and typically occurs as well formed crystals. It is nearly black in color and has a vitreous Lustre mineralogy luster . Its Mohs scale of mineral hardness hardness is between 6.5 and 7, and its specific gravity is between 4.0 and 4.7. It fractures in a conchoidal pattern. The mineral s streak mineralogy streak is grayish green. It is also pyrognomic , which means that it becomes incandescence incandescent at a relatively low temperature. Name and discovery Gadolinite was named in 1800 for Johan Gadolin , the Finland Finnish mineralogist chemist who first isolated an oxide of the rare earth element yttrium from the mineral in 1792. The rare earth gadolinium was also named for him. However, gadolinite does not contain more than trace amounts of gadolinium. When Gadolin analy ... more details
other uses use dmy dates date December 2011 Image Limelight diagram.svg thumb 400px File Homemade Limelight.JPG thumb A homemade limelight made by heating calcium hydroxide in a stove burner. It is not as bright as a real limelight. Limelight also known as calcium light ref name smith James R. Smith 2004 San Francisco s Lost Landmarks , Quill Driver Books ref is a type of stage lighting once used in theatre s and music hall s. An intense illumination is created when an Oxyhydrogen oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of quicklime calcium oxide , ref http scifun.chem.wisc.edu CHEMWEEK Lime lime.html Chemical of the Week Lime Bot generated title ref which can be heated to 2572 C before melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence . Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be in the limelight. The actual lights are called limes, a term which has been transferred to electrical equivalents. History The limelight effect was discovered in the 1820s by Goldsworthy Gurney , ref http www.chem.leeds.ac.uk delights texts Demonstration 19.htm Limelight Leeds University , accessed 18 July 2008 ref ref cite book url http books.google.de books?id iX194mHFAcYC&pg PA11 page 11 title The Correspondence of Michael Faraday isbn 9780863412516 author1 Faraday, Michael author2 James, Frank A. J. L year 1999 ref based on his work with the oxy hydrogen blowpipe tool blowpipe , credit for which is normally given to Robert Hare chemist Robert Hare . In 1825, a Scotland Scottish engineer, Thomas Drummond 1797 1840 , saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday citation needed date December 2010 and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working version in 1826, and the device is sometimes called the Drummond Light after him. Limelight was first used in public in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Theatre ... more details
About the food the phenomenon of glowing white due to temperature Incandescence refimprove date March 2011 Infobox prepared food name White hot dog image File White hot dog exterior detail.JPG 300px caption A Zweigle s 1 4 pound white hot dog at Bill Gray s alternate name country United States region Rochester, New York creator course Main course served Hot main ingredient Pork , white bun, optional condiments mustard condiment mustard , hot sauce , onion s, and others variations calories other The white hot is a variation on the hot dog found in the Upstate New York Upstate New York area . ref name wapo Red or White, The Washington Post, May 24, 2006, http www.washingtonpost.com wp dyn content article 2006 05 23 AR2006052300372.html ref It is composed of some combination of uncured and unsmoked pork , beef , and veal the lack of smoking or curing allows the meat to retain a naturally white color. ref http www.amnh.org exhibitions baseball hotdogs Hot Dogs As America Baseball As America American Museum of Natural History Bot generated title ref White hots usually contain mustard condiment mustard and other spices, and often include a dairy component such as nonfat dry milk. The white hot originated in the 1920s Citation needed date January 2010 in Rochester s German American German community as a white and porky ref name wapo alternative to high price red hot dogs, made of the less desirable meat parts and various fillers in contrast, modern versions are made from quality meats and generally are sold at higher prices than common hot dogs. The best known producer of the white hot is Zweigle s . Even though they were not the first to make the dog, they were the first ones at the stadium according to Robert Berl, the first maker of the Zweigle brand white hot . Soon after Berl began making the dogs in 1925, he secured a contract at the Silver Stadium Red Wing Stadium . The white hot has become the official hot dog of the Buffalo Bills , Buffalo Sabres , Rochester Amerks ... more details
Orphan date September 2010 Unreferenced date May 2009 cleanup biography date May 2009 Jos Antonio de Artigas Sanz born 1887 was a Spanish engineer who contributed to the standardization of terminology in the field of electrical engineering . Achievements He earned his doctorate in engineering in 1907, and became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences . Even before graduating, he had used noble gases to create luminescence for the first time and set up a system that improved the performance of incandescence incandescent lighting. When the Spanish Permanent Commission for Electricity was set up in 1912 to represent Spain at the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC , De Artigas was appointed President of the Spanish Electrotechnical Committee , a post he held for the remainder of his life. At this period, an IEC Technical Committee had already started work on nomenclature , and De Artigas made an important contribution to the preparation of the first edition of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary , which contained 2,000 terms divided into 14 groups, and was completed in 1938. In 1952, the Spanish branch of the Committee, under his direction, prepared the Spanish language version of the Vocabulary, as well as a special version intended for institutes of higher learning in Latin America, containing definitions in Spanish with translations into French, English, German and Italian. He was appointed Honorary President of the IEC at the council meeting held in Madrid in 1959. His work with various international organizations secured unanimous consent to give the scientific unit of light intensity a Spanish name candela . In addition to his work in electronics, he helped to establish the Spanish Precision glass moulding precision glass industry and, in North America, together with a colleague Who date May 2009 , succeeded in Glass casting casting a twenty three ton glass block completely free of imperfections for the ... more details
Pierre Mercure is born in Montreal 21 February 1927 died in an accident near Avallon, France 29 January 1966 , Canadian composer , TV producer, bassoonist, administrator. Premier prix Harmony, Counterpoint, Deuxi me prix bassoon Conservatoire de musique du Qu bec Montr al 1949. His main composition teacher was Claude Champagne . He also studied composition briefly with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luigi Dallapiccola at Tanglewood . ref http www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params U1ARTU0002351 Pierre Mercure in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada ref Pierre Mercure began his compositional career in the world of ballet, composing four ballets in a short period in 1948 and 1950, going on to compose orchestral, chamber and electronic music as well. He sought to make the Canadian new music community catch up with the developments of western classical music in Europe and the United States, taking many trips to France in order to absorb its contemporary music scene. Works Ballet Dualit 1948 La Femme archa que 1949 Lucr ce Borgia 1949 Emprise 1950 Improvisation 1961 Incandescence 1961 Structures m talliques I and II 1961 T trachromie 1963 Manipulations 1964 Surimpressions 1964 Film La Forme des choses 1965 l ment 3 1965 Orchestral Kal idoscope 1948 Ils ont d truit la ville 1950 Cantate pour une joie 1955 Divertissement 1957 Triptyque 1959 Lignes et points 1964 Chamber Pantomime 1948 H2O per Severino 1965 Electronic Jeu de hockey 1961 R percussions 1961 Structures m talliques III 1962 Psaume pour abri 1963 External links http www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params U1ARTU0002351 Pierre Mercure at The Canadian Encyclopedia http www.musiccentre.ca apps index.cfm?fuseaction composer.FA dsp biography&authpeopleid 1111&by M Pierre Mercure at The Canadian Music Centre Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mercure, Pierre ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1927 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1966 PLAC ... more details
Image SouthernExpoPoster.jpg thumb 300px Portion of poster for 1884 Southern Exposition The Southern Exposition was a five year series of World s fair s held in the city of Louisville, Kentucky from 1883 to 1887 in what is now Louisville s Old Louisville neighborhood. The exposition, held for 100 days each year on convert 45 acre m2 immediately south of Central Park, Louisville Central Park , which is now the St. James Belgravia Historic District , was essentially an industrial and mercantile show. At the time, the exposition was larger than any previous American exhibition with the exception of the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876. President of the United States U.S. President Chester A. Arthur opened the first annual exposition on August 1, 1883. Highlights One highlight of the show was the largest to date installation of incandescent light bulb s, having been recently invented by Thomas Edison a resident of Louisville sixteen years before , to bring light to the exposition in the nighttime. The contract with the Louisville Board of Trade was for 5,000 incandescent lamps. 4,600 lamps for the exhibition hall and 400 for an art gallery, more than all the lamps installed in New York City at that time, were used. George H. Yater writes in his book Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio cquote The Exposition was the first large space lighted by incandescence and many electrical pioneers felt that the Louisville success did more to stimulate the growth of interior electric lighting than any other Edison plant. gallery Image Birdseye southernexpo.jpg Birds eye view of Louisville from the river front and Southern Exposition, 1883 by William F. Clarke gallery References cite book title Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio A History of Louisville and Jefferson County last Yater first George H. year 1987 publisher The Filson Historical Society Filson Club, Incorporated edition 2nd edition See also Columbia Building Louisville, Kentucky Columbia Buil ... more details
J. Ellsworth Kalas is the former president and a current professor of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky Wilmore , Kentucky . He also served as pastor for 38 years in the Wisconsin and Ohio Conferences of the United Methodist Church and was associated for 5 years with the World Methodist Council. Education and career Kalas obtained his Bachelor of Science at University of Wisconsin Madison in 1951 his Bachelor of Divinity at Garrett Theological Seminary in 1954 and did additional graduate studies at University of Wisconsin Madison, and Harvard University . Dr. Kalas also holds honorary degrees from Lawrence University , Asbury Theological Seminary , and Kentucky Wesleyan College . Kalas tenure with Asbury began in 1993 and he has taught Preaching there since 2000. He is the author of multiple Bible Studies published by the United Methodist Publishing House as well as a groundbreaking study called Christian Believer which attempts to teach Methodist laity systematic theology. ref http www.asburyseminary.edu about administration and faculty faculty g k ellsworth kalas Dr. J. Ellsworth Kalas Faculty Page at Asbury ref His addition to the field of homiletics is the concept of the Biographical Sermon , teaching a doctrine or biblical concept through the story of a real person s life. Biographical preaching can model methods for dealing with suffering and pain by telling the story of an exemplar s struggle with suffering and pain. Books Kalas has authored over 30 different books and many additional published articles. His most well known works are Preaching About People The Power Of Biography , ISBN 0827230028, ISBN 9780827230026 The Grand Sweep 365 Days from Genesis Through Revelation , ISBN 0687720532, ISBN 9780687720538 Incandescence Light Shed through the Word , ISBN 0802832083, ISBN 9780802832085 References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kalas, Ellsworth ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE O ... more details
Infobox Single Name Parallel Horizontal Cover parallelhorizontal.gif Artist Marine Research from Album Sounds from the Gulf Stream Released 27 July 1999 Format Compact Disc CD Label flagicon UK K Records Producer Roger Tebbutt A side , br Mike Engles B sides Last single Queen B br 1998 This single Parallel Horizontal br 1999 Next single Sick and Wrong br 1999 p align justify Parallel Horizontal is a song by the indie pop band Marine Research . It first appeared as a Single music single on 27 July 1999 and then as the opening track on their only album Sounds from the Gulf Stream on 24 August. ref Allmusic entry Allmusic class album id r425603 pure url yes link ref p align justify Its two B side s were recorded for John Peel s BBC Radio 1 Radio 1 show in May 1999. Neither song featured on Sounds from the Gulf Stream and so were exclusive to this release. Amelia Fletcher and Peter Momtchiloff had first recorded a session for Peel in 1987 when they were members of Talulah Gosh . ref bbc.co.uk http www.bbc.co.uk radio1 johnpeel sessions 1980s 1987 Dec29talulahgosh link ref p align justify A music video was made for the song. ref Southern Records entry http www.southern.com southern band MARIR 19500 video.html link ref p align justify Parallel Horizontal garnered several positive reviews. ref Marine Research home page http www.users.globalnet.co.uk queenb parallelreviews.htm link ref Paul Connolly in The Times described it as Perfect sunny day pop music , ref The Times , 17 July 1999 ref while Dale Kattack in Nightshift wrote it s fantastically merry and uncomplicated but for all its sweetness there s barely a trace of Twee pop tweeness to he heard . ref Nightshift , July 1999 ref Stevie Chick in the NME described Angel in the Snow as four minutes of icy cool girl group incandescence . ref NME , 31 July 1999 ref Track listing Parallel Horizontal Angel in the Snow I Confess Tracks 2 and 3 were recorded for the BBC Radio 1 John Peel show and first transmitted on 18 May 1999 ... more details
Infobox lighthouse name Smygehuk image name Smygehuk Lighthouse 2009.JPG caption location Smygehuk , Scania , Sweden latd 55 latm 20 latNS N longd 13 longm 21 longEW E coordinates type type landmark region SE M coordinates display title coordinates footnotes yearbuilt 1883 yearlit automated yeardeactivated foundation construction Iron shape Cylindrical tower on round foundation marking Painted white lantern dome greenish metallic height convert 17 m abbr on elevation convert 19 m abbr on lens currentlens intensity 60 watt s range convert 8 nmi 0 m characteristic Fl. 3 20 s fogsignal admiralty C2439 NGA 5606 ARLHS SWE 355 SV 6576 Smygehuk Lighthouse lang sv Smygehuks fyr is situated approximately convert 1.5 km west of Smygehamn , and is convert 17 m high and constructed of iron. It was completed in 1883, and taken out of service in 1975 in favor of the offshore Kullagrundet Lighthouse. Following an initiative by Trelleborg Municipality , among others, it was relit in April 2001. Smygehuk Lighthouse marks the southermost tip of Sweden and the Scandinavian Peninsula . History The lighthouse was powered originally by paraffin oil , but this was soon replaced by electricity, and the lighthouse was fitted with a 1,000 watts Incandescence incandescent lamp. The luminous intensity was 180,000 Hefner candles. The rotating third order lens spread the beams of light in the correct pattern every fifth second a flash alternating between red and white . Today, the lens no longer rotates, and the lamp is only 60 watts. Despite this low wattage, it still reaches about 15 kilometers out over the sea, providing guidance mainly for tourists and fishing boats. The first lighthouse keeper, Elis Andersson, lived in the plastered house. His lookout and assistant lived in the wooden house. In 1985, this was converted into a hostel Sweden s southernmost bunks. The site has also been a weather station, which made its last report in April 1984. An old housing for measuring equipment and a ra ... more details
Image Nernst lamp2.jpg thumb right 300px Nernst lamp, complete, model B with cloche, DC lamp 0.5 ampere, 95 volts, by courtesy of http www.landesmuseum mannheim.de Landesmuseum f r Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim, Germany, Engl. State Museum of Technology and Labour, Mannheim Image Nernst lamp.jpg thumb right 300px A Nernst lamp diagram from 1903. The light emitting ceramic filament is called a glower Nernst lamps were an early form of Electricity electrically powered incandescent lamps . Nernst lamps did not use a glowing tungsten filament. Instead, they used a ceramic rod that was heated to incandescence . Because the rod unlike tungsten wire would not further Oxidization oxidize when exposed to air, there was no need to enclose it within a vacuum or noble gas environment the burners in Nernst lamps could operate exposed to the air and were only enclosed in glass to isolate the hot incandescent emitter from its environment. A ceramic of YSZ zirconium oxide yttrium oxide was used as the glowing rod. Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at Goettingen University, these lamps were about twice as efficient as carbon filament lamps and they emitted a more natural light more similar in spectrum to daylight . The lamps were quite successfully marketed for a time, although they eventually lost out to the more efficient tungsten filament incandescent light bulb . One disadvantage of the Nernst design was that the ceramic rod was not electrically conductive at room temperature so the lamps needed a separate heater filament to heat the ceramic hot enough to begin conducting electricity on its own. In the U.S., Nernst sold the patent to George Westinghouse who founded the Nernst Lamp Company at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh in 1901. Minerals for the production of the glowers were extracted from the company s own mines at the legendary Barringer Hill , Texas since 1937 buried beneath the waters of Lake Buchanan Texas Lake Buchanan . By 1904 ... more details
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