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Electrical light n.

The light produced by a current of electricity which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incandescence or burns it. See under Carbon.

A lamp whose light is produced by passing an electric current through a light bulb, especially an incandescent lamp.

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Etymology of 'Electrical light'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sitting of the Academy of Sciences on the 30th ult., a very interesting memoir (the 4th) was read by M.A. Masson, with the title, Studies of Electrical Photometry. He thinks that he has ascertained the cause of electrical light. He ascribes the Aurora Borealis to currents of great intensity situate in the higher regions of our atmosphere." The Report of Lieut. J.C. Walsh on his soundings, was referred for examination to Duperroy, the member most ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various