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George Carwardine's Anglepoise lamp used a balanced arrangement of constant-tension springs and pivoted arms, letting the shade move freely and hold its new position.

A lamp that holds the gesture

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Carwardine was an automotive engineer, not a stylist searching for a silhouette. In the early 1930s he adapted spring behaviour he knew from vehicle systems into a mechanism that could remain balanced across many working angles. The famous profile followed the physics: long arms, exposed pivots and a weighted base ready to obey one hand. It is task lighting as choreography—the user supplies a gesture, the mechanism remembers it.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

George Carwardine'in Anglepoise lambası, sabit gerilimli yaylar ile mafsallı kolları dengeli bir düzende kullanarak başlığın serbestçe hareket etmesini ve yeni konumunda kalmasını sağladı.
Hareketi olduğu yerde tutan lamba

Carwardine, bir silüet arayan stilist değil otomotiv mühendisiydi. 1930'ların başında araç sistemlerinden bildiği yay davranışını, birçok çalışma açısında dengede kalabilen bir mekanizmaya uyarladı. Ünlü profil fiziğin ardından geldi: uzun kollar, açıkta bırakılmış mafsallar ve tek ele itaat etmeye hazır ağırlıklı taban. Bu, koreografi olarak görev aydınlatmasıdır; kullanıcı hareketi verir, mekanizma onu hatırlar.

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