Cute Home Lamp

Lamps or fixtures are electric receivers that convert electrical energy into another light. From a technical point of view, we distinguish between two objects and is called lamp supported device, which produces light, also called bulb or focus, being the luminaire utensil or appliance that serves soporte.

According to this latter definition, the luminaire is responsible for control and distribution of the light emitted by the lamp. It is therefore important that the design of the optical system the shape and distribution of light care, the performance of the whole lamp-light and the glare that can result in users. Other requirements for luminaires is that they are easy to install and maintain. To do this, the materials used in its construction must be adequate to withstand the environment in which the luminaire has to work and maintain the temperature of the lamp within the operating limits. In addition, the lamps that run on electricity, must submit a number of features for the safety of users against electrical contacts. All this without losing sight no less important aspects such as economics or aesthetics.

antique lamps [edit]

Before the invention of the electric light, the lamps were vessels containing an oily liquid, which was burned by a wick. The discovery of the wick, submerged fiber-fat combustible material is lost in the darkness of time (it is already used in the upper neolithic). With this discovery comes the primitive lamp, which was reduced to a stone bowl with a groove for the wick made of moss and a handle for hand away from the flame. Of these lamps they have been found several copies of the Neolithic. These stone lamps continue to be used by some primitive peoples such as the Eskimos of Alaska Aleuts, using whale oil as fuel.

Mediterranean people employed seashells in the fourth millennium BC. of J.C. In Homeric times they were placed on tall poles, braziers fed with firewood and wood chips. This type of hanging brazier used in India for religious ceremonies.

Greek and Roman lamps have originated in Egypt, being deep and round, with a handle and decorated with stripes, palmettes and similar drawings. It was filled with oil or grease on the surface and floated the wick (lamp call), usually by drilling a floating material (cork) to keep it upright.

Roman lamp had two holes. The center was to fill fuel and on the other side, generally shaped peak, which left the wick. They are more elaborately decorated with mythological images, shaped like animals or human bust, receiving one and the other the name of Lychnos between the Greeks and the Romans lucerne.

Although preference was to sail in the East, he developed an oil lamp shaped plate with carved feet.

Hettilo candelabrum (XI century) in the Cathedral of Hildesheim.

They are known of all ancient civilizations and multifarious forms highlighting its number and artistic perfection in their figure and reliefs Greek and Roman. Clay tiles have round or oval shape, with elegant handle and one or more peaks if they are closed or with something bent or wavy if they are open edges (these being generally Phoenician), but the bronze has wavy or prolonged forms variety of ornamental appendices and sometimes inlaid with silver or gold often being arranged for suspension (lucerne pensil) with chains. Arab, small, bronze or clay, is distinguished by its elevation and its very long beak and offer little taste while shaped glass of bronze carry multiple arabesque ornaments and end in covered puffs that are suspended from the high.