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2008-10-20
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2008-10-20
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goin' to blackpool this weekend to see the illuminations.
http://images.google.com/images?q=bl...+illuminations
The dazzling display stretches almost six miles from Starr Gate to Bispham and uses more than 500,000 lamps.
The electricity bill comes in at a staggering £60,000.
Prior to 1879 the streets were lit by gas light but in that year the Council devoted the sum of £5000 to experiment with the concept of electric street lighting. On the 19th September 1879 Dr Siemens' 8 dynamo-electric machines powered by 16 Robey engines were used to power 8 arc lamps on the promenade spaced 320 yards apart, emitting the equivalent of 48,000 candles of light in total. The event had been advertised nationally and between 70,000 and 100,000 visitors travelled from all over Britain to witness the event. The light generated was called "artificial sunshine" and these were possibly the first electric street lights in the world.
The nearest to modern day displays was staged on Princess Parade in May 1912 to mark the first Royal visit to Blackpool. Princess Louise officially opened the new section of promenade and as part of the celebrations of this event the Blackpool electrical engineer was instructed to decorate the promenade in what was then a "novel fashion of garland lamps".1912 Princess Parade About 10,000 bulbs were used and the results were so impressive that the local chamber of trade and other business people in the town persuaded the Council to stage these lights again in September of that year.
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2008-10-20
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2008-10-20
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2008-10-21
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2008-10-21
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2008-10-21
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2008-10-21
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Updated to 0.1.5. Awesome. The "camera" app in the repo is horrid, and has always frozen my tablet. Liqbase, otoh, works beautifully with the camera
One request, though! The multi-touch experiment is genius. Could you incorporate it into stretching the images in the Physics Sim or Recent Photos? That would be AWESOME
Thanks again for this great app!
Thanks again! (And I'm really looking forward to capturing images with liqbase