World's Largest Light Bulb
The sphere atop the tower has been called the "world's largest light bulb". Another famous sphere, the Union Watersphere, that has long been known as the "world's tallest water sphere"is located in nearby Union.
Read more about this topic: Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower And Museum
Famous quotes containing the words world, largest, light and/or bulb:
“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but they read the word of God by it.”
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“... until the shopkeeper plants his boot in our eyes,
and unties our bone and is finished with the case,
and turns to the next customer, forgetting our face
or how we knelt at the yellow bulb with sighs
like moth wings for a short while in a small place.”
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