This circuit was found in a General Electric manual from 1970. Its purpose is to provide a preheat to a filament lamp.
I found this circuit on a December 1976 Radio Elettronica. The Italian magazine no longer exists, but...
This circuit for the power grid was found in the June 1969 Radio Electronics magazine. The load is...
This circuit with common CMOS components was found in the November 1984 issue of Radio Electronics...