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Glow Sticks 101--How They Work

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There are several US patents for ' glow stick ' type devices by various inventors most related to the US navy. The first and original was actually invented as early as 1964. In 1976 the patent for the Chemiluminescent Lighting Device was registered. Since that time the simple and safe to use devices have become widely used in many areas. You probably most commonly see them in bars and night-clubs however they are regularly used by emergency services on land and sea. The original design was born out of the need to have a light source without fire, heat or batteries and was readily used by land and marine forces and soon became popular amongst civilian and commercial use. Without fire or battery how do they work? 3 types of light. In all cases atoms are excited to emit light photos. With batteries and other sources of electric currents, light photons are emitted due to heat (incandescence) from the filament of a light bulb, often intensified with reflective backing a

The Rave Scene Explained

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The term 'raves' was first used to describe indulgent parties during the 1950s in United Kingdom. In 1958 Buddy Holly released the chart topping hit 'Rave On,' and the term quickly became a part of common English used to describe a madness or frenzy of feeling and not wanting it to end. People who were party animals were often described as 'ravers.' With the indulgence of the 1980s, and after explosion of new designer drugs and cocaine on to the consumer market starting in the United States and just as quickly spreading across the world, disco had transformed from the rich elite into a mass market. Electronic music had grown and although the term had fallen out of fashion during the 60s and 70s when  was more popular to be 'groovy,' it was coming back into fashion. By the end of the 1980s with the emergence of Techno music, the term was concreted as the description of an event with participants normally numbering in their thousands listening to