The huge and splendid bath provided a walk-in shower, twin basins set in a black marble vanity, electric lighting and extravagant amounts of hanging space.
It had the only elevator and public bathroom in town and was one of the first buildings in the West to have full electric lighting.
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Electric lighting is no great boon to anyone who has money enough to buy a sufficient number of candles and to pay servants to attend to them.
Providing a constant light during daylight hours the bottle bulbs are promoted as a better choice than candles and electric lighting that may have dangerous or faulty wiring and could cause fires.
It is true, though, that the spread of electric lighting means many people eat their main meal of the day in the evening, when natural daylight is long gone the obverse of a mouse eating during daylight hours.
These products are used in telecommunications networks, computer-controlled systems, security systems, emergency lighting, electric utilities and switchgear, medical equipment, rail signaling, renewable energy, and military and aviation equipment.
That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.
"We're just at the beginning stages of mass adoption, " said Steve Briggs, a lighting executive at General Electric Co.
Power electronics modify the voltage, current or frequency of electricity in applications as diverse as solid-state lighting, intelligent motors and electric vehicles.
Philips' biggest competitors include the lighting and electronics divisions of General Electric and Siemens.
Take General Electric, which now makes most of its lighting products there.
With its interests in power systems, transportation, medical lighting and finance, Siemens Group is Germany's answer to General Electric.
General Electric alumnus Robert L. Nardelli did a huge store face-lift--better lighting, signage and a new range of appliances to win back women who ditched Depot for archcompetitor Lowe's.
And deeper into the paper you find that they mean LEDs reducing electricity consumption for lighting, more efficient home heating, more insulation, better cars (perhaps electric) and so on.
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