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  • Seventh -- To invent devices that would prevent the current from becoming excessive upon any conductors, causing fire or other injury; also switches for turning the current on and off; lamp-holders, fixtures, and the like; also means and methods for establishing the interior circuits that were to carry current to chandeliers and fixtures in buildings.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • Seventh -- To invent devices that would prevent the current from becoming excessive upon any conductors, causing fire or other injury; also switches for turning the current on and off; lamp-holders, fixtures, and the like; also means and methods for establishing the interior circuits that were to carry current to chandeliers and fixtures in buildings.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • There were portrait-masks and mural paintings on either wall; ancestral statues of white marble stood in a row against the red wall; there were seats and divans of ebony enriched by cunning hands; lamp-holders of wrought metal standing high as a man's head, and immense violet rugs on the floor.

    Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Irving Bacheller 1904

  • A negro man wearing a white jacket came through the iron gate, with its immense granite posts and wrought-iron lamp-holders.

    Options O. Henry 1886

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