Talk:Anglepoise lamp

Remove Fair Use Image tag
Some one keeps adding "a change this image " tag to the anglepoise image here. I am removing the tag for these reasons

(1) It's a promotinal use image. (2) It is a photo of the first production Anglepoise lamp and as such would be quite difficult to come accross today. To clarify: it is a specific model from the Anglepoise company. It is not any old anglepoise type lamp, from any old company. However if you do have a public version of the specific lamp, feel free to swap it. However plese stop tagging it to be changed as I dont believe it can be replaced so easily.--Trounce 12:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not the person who tagged the photo for deletion, however I was surprised enough by the photo to look at the discussion page to see if anyone had raised an issue regarding it. Firstly the shade/hood looks wrong, the original 4 spring lamps that I have seen had a single stage hood not a two stage one as seen here. The press stud switch on the top is too modern and the lamp holder is not visible. The flex is most definetly not from an original 1930's lamp, it should be the dark braided two strand, the flex in the photo didn't exist in the 1930's. It's white, the original lamps didn't come in white. It has a round base, the original lamp, did not have a round base it had a slightly bowed square base with a tapering four sided tower. This was later replaced by the square three step and then the two step art deco bases. Round bases didn't appear on anglepoise until the 1970s. Lastly it just looks too new to be a 70 year old lamp. I suggest that what is pictured is a fairly modern lamp that is a a copy of the original four spring anglepoise arrangement or (unlikely) an original that has been stripped and redfitted with so many new and different parts that it is as good as unoriginal. Personally I doubt that the picture even shows a genuine Anglepoise (I have a clamp lamp that looks similar that isn't an a genuine Anglepoise) For a look at the original try this page: http://www.freewebs.com/macstiltskin/herbertterrys12089.htm, there is also a link to a page showing Carwadine's original lamp. I think you'll agree that the thing in the wikipedia article picture is emphatically not Carwadines original lamp, it is not a 1208 or 1209, neither is it a 1227, all of which are classic Anglepoise lamps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thunderbuck ram (talk • contribs) 20:46, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Mention of The Soft Boys' Song?
Should there me a mention on the page that the lamp is the subject of the punk band The Soft Boys' song "(I Wanna Be) An Anglepoise Lamp?" I for one would never have known what an anglepoise lamp was had I not heard the song. ROG 19 18:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Tabby (talk) 05:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) It has no relevance to the anglepoise lamp
 * 2) If one listed everywhere the anglepoise was mentioned, it would become an awfully long page.

Patents are not US patents
The two referenced patents, 404615 and 433617 do not appear to be US patents related to lamps. Owing to origin on lamp and inventor, perhaps these are UK patent numbers? 24.103.20.132 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Most of what exists has nothing whatsoever to do with the US. As they say, in the US, 'Get used to it'!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.61.136 (talk) 00:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Luxo Jr.
I've removed the mention of Pixar's film Luxo Jr. under the Modern Culture References section, which included the sentence "The short film features two Anglepoise lamps, one a child and the other presumably the child's mother.". Since as far as I know Anglepoise is a trademark (not generic), and the one in the film is a Luxo lamp, I've removed the reference.

Genialimbecile (talk) 11:41, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

In modern culture
I deleted a repeated reference to The Soft Boys' song.

Would it also be relevant to mention the Pixar title sequence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.113.50.169 (talk) 11:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Draft:Myster Shadow-Sky
Myster Shadow-Sky is the one, and the only one composer who performed permanently from 1980 to 2007 the anglepoise lamp as a musical instrument: the archisonic lamp. He wrote in 1980 the score "Ludus Musicae Temporarium" for an anglepoise lamp orchestra with the world premiere by Les Percussions de Strasbourg at the contemporary music festival Manca in Nice in 1988. He released 5 albums with this anglepoise musical instrument (and more with others) available for free download at http://centrebombe.org/myster_shadow-sky_discography.html. He is referenced in the book "Les chercheurs de sons" (2004) ISBN: 286227434B, as the unique creator of this musical anglepoise musical instrument: why banish him from the paragraph "In modern culture" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.23.245.10 (talk) 15:03, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Like Luxo Jr, these are balanced arm lamps, but they're not Anglepoise lamps. See http://centrebombe.org/lamps.html Andy Dingley (talk) 16:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)


 * effectively it is not a LUXO lamp, but the picture shows an anglepoise lamp (with 4 springs to be used by architect) from Czechoslovakia. Other anglepoise lamp was used from Italian manufacturers http://centrebombe.org/firstlamp.html I suppose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.23.245.10 (talk) 16:32, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * A key feature of the Anglepoise design, and not used by other makes, is that the springs for both sections of the arm are concentrated at the base of the lamp. They're also short, stiff springs rather than the long, flexible springs used on more common designs.
 * As is both visible in your photographs, and is also necessary for the function of the Archisonic lamp, it uses the long springs; i.e. not an Anglepoise. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:09, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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