Child Falla Cuba-Azorín

"I-lluminated"

Artist: Sergio Amar.

Prize: 6th special section.

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"The importance of light in the life that is generated by the sun. Artificial light is the one we use at home and the natural light that nature produces. Oil lamps, gas and LED bulb. The great invention of the light bulb"

 

 

nikola tesla

"Nikola Tesla"

"Inventor and mechanical and electrical engineer who worked for Edison, which appropriated and patented some of Tesla's ideas as the alternating current, which improved and lengthened in time the direct current invented by Edison."

thomas edison

"Thomas Edison"

"His greatest contribution to the electricity problem was the design of carbonized cotton filament, turned on for the first time on October 19, 1879. In 1880 it went on sale the first electric lights."

 

florence nightingale

"Florence Nightinglae"

"Nurse and mathematics known as 'the lady of the crucible' for making nightly rounds to treat the wounded in the Crimean War."

"The Moon"

" It has not its own light but reflects sunlight. "

"Stars"

"They are the only elements of the universe that emit their own light. In our galaxy, the star is the Sun, with a surface temperature of 6000 şc."

galaxy

"Galaxy"

"Set of star, planets, gas clouds, cosmic dust, etc."

"The number of stars that form is incalculable, from dwarfs with 10 million stars, up to giants with one trillion of stars."

shadow theater

"Shadow theater"

lighthouse

"Go like mosquitoes to light"

"Mosquitoes use natural light as a reference for orientation, they receive it equally by the two eyes. They receive artificial light more for the eye than the other, which explains that move in a circle around the bulb."

"Luces"

types of lights

"Suit of lights (bullfighter), white light, yellow light, black light, fallas lights. "

abyssal fish

"Abyssal fish"

"They are in the deep sea. They have a filament that glows thanks to bacteria that create light."

night watchman

"Night watchman"

"'Taken by the Night watchman whistle' when someone is catched by watchman's whistle is because we do not consider his opinions."

"He was the figure responsible for monitoring the streets and light the lamps with nightfall."

Christmas lights

"Bulb"

"Incandescent lights are inefficient, since 95% of its energy is converted into heat and only 5% in light."

"Christmas lights are born in the seventeenth century hanging candles from the tree, but it was not until 1882 that a friend of Thomas Edison lit with incandescent lights for the first time."

"Light oil (lamp)"

"Within the oil lamp was introduced and wet a cotton string, the tip of which went by the peak and when the lamp was turned it burned and gave light."

doing fire

"The fire"

"It is believed that Homo Erectus (1600000 years BC) learned to make fire hitting stones against a piece of iron pyrite or quickly turning a wooden stick. With these sparks ignited dry leaves and just had to keep the flame alive."

torch

"Torch"

"Portable fire source used in the Middle Ages as a light source consisting of a wooden stick with one end wrapped in a cloth soaked in tar."

bulb

"Bulb"

"September 1, 2013: prohibits the manufacture and distribution of incandescent lights and are replaced by LEDs or low consumption."

candles

"Candles"

The origin of the candles is as old as human civilization. Its use has always been associated with ancient religious purposes."

"The candle was adopted relatively late to the luminance home. The oldest description appears in Roman writings I century BC and this new invention is considered a work of art."

 

Last update: June 2013.

Víctor & Ruth