electric lamp
Noun
Meaning
a lamp powered by electricity
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First electric lamp, over 10000 lumens and thus 1000 times brighter than candles.
Robinson 1973, pp. 93-4 This was equipped with a wicker chair, chart table, electric lamp and compass, with telephone line and lightning conductor part of the suspension cable.
Many were already dead, that could be seen through the small window, because an electric lamp inside lit up the chamber for a few moments.
The invention of the intensely bright electric arc lamp in the 1860s eliminated the need for combustible gases or hazardous chemicals, and eventually the incandescent electric lamp further improved safety and convenience, although not brightness.
They do not remain in the food when the power is turned off, any more than light from an electric lamp remains in the walls and furnishings of a room when the lamp is turned off.