@kittykat9180 please send photo or else skeptical internet will claim 1940s did not occur and the existence of Europe is a hoax. But yes I do want to see the lamp!
@pmarin the lamp repair shop estimated it to be circa 1940s and either Italian or French. They also had to seal off some asbestos when they put in a new power cord.
@kittykat9180 Curious: what kind of switch? Or just plug/unplug?
As to the missing glass panels, cheap DiY fix: hand glass cutter and some old broken glass window pane to slice up. My house generates the latter about once per year. Easy after a bit of practice cutting; YT or WikiHow will show you how.
@IndifferentDude@mycya4me
I still have a couple of screw base incandescents in with my other light bulbs in my utility room. I also have a couple of black light/UV-C flashlights that are kind of fun to play with outside. It’s cool (& a bit creepy) to see what insects phosphoresce at night out in the yard.
@IndifferentDude as a teen I would disolve the ink from highlighter pens in decorative bottles so they would glow like lanterns when I had a black light on.
@tweezak
I used to love putting CDs in the microwave at work. About 10 seconds and you have a little mini lightning storm in the microwave. Radiology would give CDs of people’s films to them and occasionally they would get left behind in the ER by the patient. This was a perfect way to destroy the data!
@pmarin
I went to a lighthouse museum in ponce inlet, fl and they had a section about the history of those lights, it was pretty cool. The whole museum was very interesting and I stayed way longer than I intended to. I climbed the the lighthouse (175 feet, 203 steps) 3rd tallest in the country, boy did my legs hurt the next day.
The Plasma ball was magical to me as a kid. The first time I saw one was in Goonies. Then again in My Science Project. I never noticed the one in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off until today, when I searched for “plasma ball in film”.
My uncle had one of these fiber optic lamps that was fascinating to me as a kid as well.
Definitely plasma globes! I first saw one at Radio Shack when I was a young kid. It’s still a very vivid memory. But the $60 (I think) price tag might as well have been millions compared to my allowance.
It was years before I finally got one.
Plasma disks are also cool, and don’t die after a few years like globes seem to. Think Borg.
Balafire!!
@yakkoTDI I stopped watching 4 seconds in after his intro …
@stolicat @yakkoTDI He does some interesting stuff, but his presentation puts me to sleep.
/showme a string of fairy lights that are lighting up the inside of wine bottles
/showme a lava lamp/ Plasma Ball
@mycya4me I would buy that.
The 1940s European lamp that I bought at a swap meet in San.Diego and now keep next to my bed.
@kittykat9180 please send photo or else skeptical internet will claim 1940s did not occur and the existence of Europe is a hoax. But yes I do want to see the lamp!
@pmarin the lamp repair shop estimated it to be circa 1940s and either Italian or French. They also had to seal off some asbestos when they put in a new power cord.
It is missing the glass panels around the bulb and has some areas that need repaired by a metal worker.
@kittykat9180 Curious: what kind of switch? Or just plug/unplug?
As to the missing glass panels, cheap DiY fix: hand glass cutter and some old broken glass window pane to slice up. My house generates the latter about once per year. Easy after a bit of practice cutting; YT or WikiHow will show you how.
Aerolux Figural Light Bulbs
@Kyeh
not seen these before. Love these.
@f00l My father brought one home from San Francisco when I was a kid. I was mesmerized by it!
@Kyeh Uh oh, one more thing I can’t live without.
@Kyeh Those are fun.
BLACK LIGHTS!!
@IndifferentDude
Came to say this!
@IndifferentDude yes I had a Black lite when growing up. I guess it is in the attic now.
@IndifferentDude @mycya4me
I still have a couple of screw base incandescents in with my other light bulbs in my utility room. I also have a couple of black light/UV-C flashlights that are kind of fun to play with outside. It’s cool (& a bit creepy) to see what insects phosphoresce at night out in the yard.
@IndifferentDude as a teen I would disolve the ink from highlighter pens in decorative bottles so they would glow like lanterns when I had a black light on.
Microwave arcing
@tweezak Microwaves use lasers.
@tweezak
I used to love putting CDs in the microwave at work. About 10 seconds and you have a little mini lightning storm in the microwave. Radiology would give CDs of people’s films to them and occasionally they would get left behind in the ER by the patient. This was a perfect way to destroy the data!
@chienfou @tweezak
We would do that with lightbulbs as kids.
Neon
/image beer signs
Does the Clapper count?
/giphy The Clapper
@katbyter
That was mine.
/image military electric arc searchlight
@pmarin
I went to a lighthouse museum in ponce inlet, fl and they had a section about the history of those lights, it was pretty cool. The whole museum was very interesting and I stayed way longer than I intended to. I climbed the the lighthouse (175 feet, 203 steps) 3rd tallest in the country, boy did my legs hurt the next day.
The Plasma ball was magical to me as a kid. The first time I saw one was in Goonies. Then again in My Science Project. I never noticed the one in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off until today, when I searched for “plasma ball in film”.
My uncle had one of these fiber optic lamps that was fascinating to me as a kid as well.
@xenophod Fiber optics are great, we had a fiber optic tree when I was a kid.
Definitely plasma globes! I first saw one at Radio Shack when I was a young kid. It’s still a very vivid memory. But the $60 (I think) price tag might as well have been millions compared to my allowance.
It was years before I finally got one.
Plasma disks are also cool, and don’t die after a few years like globes seem to. Think Borg.
A good string of bubble lights.
Tesla coil
