THE PROSPECTS OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING INDUSTRY
• The depression which has characterised '■ the electric lighting industry for a long time, m the opinion of experts is about to give place to a period of activity. During the last five yeara great progress has been made m the production of electricity, storage, distribution, and lamps, and the whole apparatus of eleotrio lighting is now maoh more efficient as well as oheaper Professor Ewing, of the University College, Dundee, m the coane of a leoture on the subject, pointed oat the leading improvements which have been effected within the past five yearr. The ooet of a large dynamo was then about £2 per lamp, now It is only 7b. Lamps are now mere endurable. Storage batteries are trustworthy and permanent. By transformers it has become possible to convey eleotrio energy In the form of a current of small quantity at great pres* sure, thereby only requiring small conductors, and then convert that into currents of large quantity and low pressure suitable for ordinary domestic use. By this means the problem of economically distributing electricity for inoandes* cent lighting from a central station is In a fair way to be solved. The electrio meter of Profoesor Forbes, made public only Jast month, will serve to tell bow much electricity each householder is oonsuming, j Ist as a gas meter does for gas. Electrical engineers have certainly not been idle, and if it can be demonstrated that the new Jlluminant is as cheap as gas the anticipated progress is beyond doubt.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1735, 9 January 1888, Page 3
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257THE PROSPECTS OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING INDUSTRY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1735, 9 January 1888, Page 3
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