arc light

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The fluctuating arc light shines through a perforated, rotating disk upon a ground glass screen and the spectators on the other side of the screen can see their pictures.

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Cleveland, reporters listened to the low, kindly voice of a long-beloved citizen�Charles Francis Brush, 79, six feet tall, big of frame, bushy of eyebrows, world-famed physicist, inventor of the arc light.

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Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland.

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Charles Francis Brush, inventor and practical developer of the electric arc light and the storage battery.

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In a garbage can under an arc light I found a clean corrugated paper carton and packed my city clothes.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck