Hello, friends. Today we will again talk about the designs of lighting lamps, slightly forgotten in the recent past.
Many of you, seeing such lamps, will be sincerely surprised. Indeed, there were such lamps, but no one remembers them in wide circulation. However, all of these lamps are available in numerous museums. What makes them fundamentally different about classic incandescent bulbs? Of course, no tungsten filament.
As you can see, agitation in Soviet times was more intrusive than advertising now, and even penetrated light bulbs. And there are a lot of such bulbs.
50 years of the USSR is sort of like 1967, i.e. it was almost yesterday. Personally, I myself still remember that there were lamps with flickering bulbs of this kind, but without any communist paraphernalia. They were used as decorative lighting rather than as a main one. The principle of operation was generally the same - there were two electrodes inside the bulb. When voltage was applied to them, the gas in the flask began to ionize, an electric current appeared, under the action of which the electrodes in thin places began to heat up and, accordingly, shine. Nothing complicated. The current for the burning of such a light bulb was small, well, and the light performance, respectively, too.
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I remember that in the late 70s there was a tube-to-reel tape recorder, on which the recording level indicator was also in the form of a similar miniature light bulb. The brighter the lights, the higher the level. And by the way, in many lamp devices of that time, there were similar bulbs, but they shone with green light. Obviously, the electrodes were covered with a phosphor.
Probably you think that Ilyich also invented this lamp? Of course not. This was much earlier. Bulbs of this type, but in a slightly different design, are available in museums, but little attention is paid to them.
Seemed, or is this lamp only for a single-wire circuit? And look at the rest.
All plant bulbs are 19th century lamps. And they appeared, of course, before Ilyich. Ilyich's associates simply replaced the plants with communist fetishes, and promoted these lamps to the masses. But, of course, these lamps could not compete with incandescent lamps in terms of light brightness, and therefore they did not receive mass distribution. And before incandescent lamps, these lamps with plants were widely used in life.
This is a photo of 1903, taken at some kind of ball and without a flash. Pay attention to the lamps. They do not burn very brightly, you can look at them without taking your eyes off. These are the same lamps. You can always distinguish them by weak light; any electric incandescent lamp, even of low power, always looks brighter.
This is a late 19th century photo from the theater. Pay attention to the chandeliers in the background. There are clearly no candles. If you look closely, there are just such lamps. For comparison, see how the electric incandescent lamps burn and how it can be seen in the photo.
This is an ordinary music kiosk of the early 20th century, the design of which was discussed in the article "Unusual domed pavilions", but it is already electrified from the outside - wires are visible. Notice how you can see the light bulbs in the chandeliers in the photo.
And yet, how did our plant bulbs burn?
Notice that there is blue light between the flowers along the shortest path. This is the discharge between the electrodes. But the brightest of all, for some reason, burn the petals, which are not located along the shortest path. Why? Most likely because, together with the electric current, the ethereal current flows in such a lamp. Electric travels along the shortest distance, and etheric in all directions from the petals. Nothing else is observed, but the release of cold electricity, or the separation of electricity into fractions. There is a lot of material on this topic on the net, you can google it if you want. What is it all about? Actually, to the fact that such lamps could burn with a unipolar circuit. Earlier in the article "Lenin died, but his business lives on, or new secrets of electricity in the 19th century", material on this topic was already given:
The two wires for powering the lamps in this picture are clearly not connected. In this case, the fire in the lamp ignites the ether stream going through the metal connections of the building. Call it cold electricity, whatever you like. At the top of this building there was a dome, which produced an etheric stream from the atmosphere. All of these designs have been discussed earlier. There is also an assumption that such lamps are the very milk balls that were used in the illumination.
Of course, you want to ask - where did all this go? It can be stated that this is all at least forgotten. As a maximum, it is successfully hidden in the hope that in a few generations all this will be irretrievably lost. Experiment, type in Google "Yablochkov's candle", it will give 16800 direct results on the topic. Then fill in the "plant lamp", it will give 584000 results, and none of the relevant ones. The Yablochkov candle has no prospects in modern electrical engineering, everyone understands this and its fame does not threaten anything. Even at school, it is taught as a historical stage in physics. Lamps with plants are another matter. You can find them only in museums, and then only those that are suitable for a two-wire power system are demonstrated there. The conclusion is simple - some force at the beginning of the 20th century blocked not only their development in technical terms,but also the very fact of existence as such. If they developed together with incandescent lamps, and also developed simultaneously power supplies for such lamps according to a single-wire circuit, it is not known which would have been more successful.
Well, and probably another question that you also want to ask - why are there plants inside the lamps, and not animals, or for example, not fleur-de-lis. The answer to this question is not difficult if you remember botany. How do you think trees, without a heart, disperse the juice inside themselves, and so that in the spring you can hang cans to pour it? If you remember, chronologically this coincides with the fact that water at this time runs out of the ground by itself, even if the ambient temperature is not very high. Obviously, the sap in the trees and the water from the ground are pushed out by the same force, this mechanism is written here. And where then does this juice go if it flows in such a volume? It is converted into plant matter under the influence of sunlight. And so that this process goes harmoniously,trees are already designed by nature for optimal absorption of light from the surrounding space, thanks to their spatial design. If we slightly modify this postulate, it turns out that trees, due to their branching and leaf cover, are a natural scatter into the space of a certain stream that could go along the tree from its root system. You can argue about different types of plants, but the essence does not change. There is a mechanism created by nature that is implemented in plants, and it does not matter if it is a tree, a bush or a grass. And if a metal model of such a shrub is placed in a flask with gas, then this model will optimally dissipate a certain substance from its surface, which will go along it from the side of the roots. What substance we are talking about, probably everyone has already guessed. Of course, instead of a plant model, you can put anything, even the profiles of Marx-Engels-Lenin, but the process will already lose its effectiveness. There is no need to reinvent the wheel, everything has long been invented, and in this case, not even by man.
But, as we can see, the amazing is near, but forbidden, is of no value.
Until next time.