ELECTRIC LIGHT.
On the Brighton railway, England, a trial of lighting a Pullman car by electricity has been made on the journey from London to Brighton. The car was fitted with twelve of Swan ? s incandescent lamps, the batteries being fixed underneath the car, and the lights being turned on and off by a switch arrangement. On the downward journey the light was tried in the tunnels only, and the experiment was considered entirely satisfactory. Several towns in the Western States of America are now lighted by means of the Brush Company’s electric towers, each from 200 to 250 feet high, with six lights, each 6000 candle, power. The light from these towers resembles brilliant moonlight. The towers are of light and graceful construction, being 3ft in diameter at the base, and tapering to about Sin at the top ; the material consists of steel. The idea of illuminating the St Gothard tunnel with the electric light has been abandoned as too expensive, and the carriages only will lighted in the ordinary way.
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Patea Mail, 26 January 1882, Page 2
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172ELECTRIC LIGHT. Patea Mail, 26 January 1882, Page 2
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