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- Bubble_light abstract "A bubble light is a decorative device consisting of a liquid-filled vial that is heated and lighted by an incandescent light bulb. Because of the liquid's low boiling point, the modest heat generated by the lamp causes the liquid to boil and bubble up from the vial's base thus creating the bubble light. The liquid is almost always methylene chloride, but some early bubble lights used a lightweight oil. The light from the lamp illuminates the bubbles from underneath, causing them to shine. Bubble lights were very popular as Christmas lights from the 1940s through the 1970s, before miniature \"fairy\" lights became popular.Bubble lights were being manufactured by The Telsen Electric Co.(1935) Ltd, in Manchester, England, possibly as early as the late 1920s. Bubble lights for Christmas decoration were first patented in the United States by Carl W. Otis in 1944 and introduced there in 1946 by NOMA, one of the largest American manufacturers of Christmas lights. While NOMA was the largest company to make these lights, other manufacturers included Raylite (Paramount/Sterling), Royal Electric Company, and Good Lite/Peerless. Bubble lights of all kinds operate best when the top of the tube is significantly cooler than the bottom, thus increasing the pressure gradient. The tubes must be kept upright, and occasionally need to be tapped or even shaken to begin bubbling after warming up. Bubble lights have been made in two different base sizes — E10 (C6) 15 volt, and E12 (C7). The original design used a miniature screw base (E10), such as those used on C6 cone Christmas lamps. These early designs were nominally designed to operate with eight on one string, in series, at 15 volts each. However, they were often packaged with a nine-socket string to extend the life of the bulbs. Bubble lights could also be purchased individually for use in existing light strings. Modern incarnations either use candelabra base (E12) 120-volt bulbs, or push-in wedge base \"midget\" size miniature bulbs (most commonly ten 12-volt bulbs wired in series). The clear light bulb is enclosed in a plastic base made up of a \"bowl\" and a \"cap\", usually of different colors. Bubble lights are manufactured in just about any color, including the liquid in the tube. The plastics used are most commonly semi-opaque red, yellow, blue, and green. Liquids are generally amber, red, blue, green, and rarely purple and pink. Uncolored liquid is also available, being lit with colored bulbs instead. In recent years, bubble lights have become more elaborate in appearance. Glitter is sometimes added to the vials for extra sparkle, most commonly on specialty types such as those used in decorative night-lights. Bases are now often made to look like objects such as Santa Clauses or snowmen, rather than the plain ribbed plastic. Like many other Christmas decorations, they have been converted for Halloween use, usually with orange liquid and a base that looks like a jack-o'-lantern, or the head of a black cat or witch, among other Halloween symbols.Modern imitations of bubble lights are made from acrylic or other clear plastic rods, with permanent bubbles deliberately manufactured into them, lit with fixed-color or color-changing LEDs. Other bubbling lights are much larger and sit on a table or floor, occasionally with fake fish which \"swim\" up and down in the changing buoyancy. These tubes are filled with distilled water and have one or more airstones at the bottom, and normally a light, along with the air pump.".
- Bubble_light thumbnail BubbleLightPatent.png?width=300.
- Bubble_light wikiPageID "2951517".
- Bubble_light wikiPageLength "4759".
- Bubble_light wikiPageOutDegree "37".
- Bubble_light wikiPageRevisionID "696015823".
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Air_pump.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Airstone.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Aquatic_locomotion.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Black_cat.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Boiling_point.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Buoyancy.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Candelabra.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Category:Christmas_decorations.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Category:Types_of_lamp.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Christmas_decoration.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Christmas_lights.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Coffee_percolator.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Dichloromethane.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Distillation.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Drinking_bird.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink File:MiniBubbleLight.jpg.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Fish.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Glitter.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Halloween.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Hand_boiler.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Incandescent_light_bulb.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Jack-o-lantern.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Lava_lamp.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Light-emitting_diode.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Liquid_bubble.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink NOMA_(company).
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Oil.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Poly(methyl_methacrylate).
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Pressure_gradient.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Santa_Claus.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Snowman.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Symbol.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Telsen_Electric_Company_Ltd.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Wedge_base.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink Witchcraft.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink File:Bubble.JPG.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLink File:BubbleLightPatent.png.
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bubble Lites".
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bubble light".
- Bubble_light wikiPageWikiLinkText "bubble light".
- Bubble_light wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Christmas.
- Bubble_light wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US_patent.
- Bubble_light subject Category:Christmas_decorations.
- Bubble_light subject Category:Types_of_lamp.
- Bubble_light hypernym Device.
- Bubble_light type Device.
- Bubble_light comment "A bubble light is a decorative device consisting of a liquid-filled vial that is heated and lighted by an incandescent light bulb. Because of the liquid's low boiling point, the modest heat generated by the lamp causes the liquid to boil and bubble up from the vial's base thus creating the bubble light. The liquid is almost always methylene chloride, but some early bubble lights used a lightweight oil. The light from the lamp illuminates the bubbles from underneath, causing them to shine.".
- Bubble_light label "Bubble light".
- Bubble_light sameAs Q4982228.
- Bubble_light sameAs m.08fqkv.
- Bubble_light sameAs Q4982228.
- Bubble_light wasDerivedFrom Bubble_light?oldid=696015823.
- Bubble_light depiction BubbleLightPatent.png.
- Bubble_light isPrimaryTopicOf Bubble_light.