Running light - the story of the flashlight

Years ago, flashlights were the only household appliances that every family had. During the day, put it on the table; at night, put it on the bed; when walking the night, take it in your hand. The silver-white light accompanied us through a period of rugged dirt road.

The construction of the flashlight is simple, and the plated metal casing connects the tungsten bulb to the alkaline battery. And this simple flashlight is a toy that we never tire of when we were young.

Adults don't like us to play flashlights. I am afraid of electricity. Every time my mother sees me playing a flashlight, I always smile and say: Big fools play flashlights. That is the fun of the children that adults don't understand. We are looking at the sky, trying to let the light run to the moon and the stars; we look at our own hands, looking at the transparent blood-red fingers and palms, and we can’t understand it; we are facing the tree, then Use your feet to smash the trunk, and when you are awakened by the tree, you will fly into the aperture; we will press the red button on the switch from time to time to the firefly in the distance, and the firefly will Bring the little lantern with it to us.

We don't just play at night, sometimes we play during the day. We took the flashlight apart, put the gold-plated casing as a monocular, placed it on the eye, and pretended to observe the "enemy"; put a conical focusing mirror on the ear and put the spring-backed metal cover on the mouth. Reporting to each other, making phone calls, notifying the "enemy situation" and directing "battle." After playing, assemble them before the adults go home and put them in the same place. When the adults reused, turn on the flashlight and the beams are scattered. They rotate the cover against the wall, adjust the mirror, and refocus it.

In the past, the countryside was not powered, and there were no street lights. At night, it was only possible to use a flashlight to guide the road. The importance of the flashlight is self-evident. If you go back to the relatives without a flashlight, the owner will find out the flashlight in the house for the guests to take it, and then return it the next day, so that there will be more contacts. In the evening when the village puts open-air movies, the light pillars come together on all sides, and then dispersed. It is a big gathering of people and a big gathering of flashlights. The children waved flashlights on the film field, and the young people swayed the light column on the road. The light column and the light column crossed and danced to the rare and lively time of the country.

From torches, candles, lanterns, oil lamps, lanterns to flashlights, the development of mobile lighting tools has a long history. The flashlight started late and developed rapidly. Nowadays, few people have used battery flashlights, they have been replaced with rechargeable flashlights, and the style is no longer the old-fashioned tiger head, all kinds of plastic shells, metal shells, different sizes, colorful, can look at people Dazzling.