Living Without Electricity In the early 1900s, before electricity, power to accomplish everyday tasks came from the labor of the entire farm family and their hired hands, plus horses and windmills. Occasionally stationary gasoline engines were used to run pumps, … Continue reading →

Here are the 10 steps to your light show set up: Decide your light show scale. Prepare your light show equipment. Obtain a control system. Acquire outside assistance. Design your display. Program your show. Let them hear you. Get powered … Continue reading →

The purpose of lighting design Illuminating action on stage. One of the most important functions of lighting design is illuminating the action on stage. Creating mood and atmosphere. Lighting can help to create mood and atmosphere on stage. Focusing the … Continue reading →

a lamp in which an electrical discharge in sodium vapour gives a yellow light, typically used in street lighting. When current passes between the electrodes, it ionizes the neon and argon, giving a red glow until the hot gas vaporizes … Continue reading →

There would be no power to use your fridge or freezer, telephone lines would be down and phone signal lost. Your mobile phones will be useless as the battery dwindles, with no back up charging option. Your gas central heating … Continue reading →

LEDs use much less energy than incandescent bulbs because diode light is much more efficient, power-wise, than filament light. LED bulbs use more than 75% less energy than incandescent lighting.Another advantage of LEDs is the “hassle factor.” LEDs last a … Continue reading →

A soffit is an overhanging roof structure.Indoors, soffit generally refer to a dropped ceiling around the edges of the room but also can mean the area between the top of kitchen cabinets and the ceiling, even if it isn’t lowered. … Continue reading →

The Livermore Centennial Light Bulb, at Firestation #6, Livermore, California, USA, has been burning since it was installed in 1901. As of 2010, the hand-blown bulb has operated at about 4 watts, and has been left on 24 hours a … Continue reading →

By the late 1700s, most of our aristocratic homes would have been lit by a selection of candles made of expensive beeswax, or perhaps from even more expensive spermaceti, the wax extracted from the head cavities of sperm whales. How … Continue reading →

Once installed, you just need to say ‘Alexa, open night light’ to enable it. The light ring on the top of the Echo will illuminate and will stay lit until you turn it off with ‘Alexa, turn off night light’ … Continue reading →

Here’s a no-brainer: Use the Echo Dot as your alarm clock. Just say, “Alexa, set an alarm for 6 a.m.,” and you’re done. (You can also insert the word “repeating” if you want to wake up the same time every … Continue reading →

Use voice commands or the Alexa app to change the brightness level manually. Open the Alexa app . Open Devices . Select Echo & Alexa and then select your Echo Dot with clock device. Select LED Display. Turn the Adaptive … Continue reading →

second-generation cellular network. 2G (or 2-G) is short for second-generation cellular network.Digitally encrypted phone conversations, at least between the mobile phone and the cellular base station but not necessarily in the rest of the network. Significantly more efficient use of … Continue reading →

The current forecast is that there will be 30.9 billion connected IoT devices by 2025 further driven by new technology standards like 5G. How many IoT devices will expect by the year 2020? The number of Internet of Things (IoT) … Continue reading →

According to Statista, there are about 21.5 billion interconnected devices in the world. Their number is set to explode in the following years as internet consumption rises and new gadgets and machinery hit the market. How many devices are there … Continue reading →