THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1126, 18 August 1882, Page 4

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

The electric light is to be applied to all the Indian troopships. The whole of the public rooms, the engine room, pantries, and passage way* on the Austral arc lighted bv the electric light --nine tire lamps and 170 Swan lamps. The Khitio Steamboat Company pro* pose lighting up the shores of "the river ahead by means of the electric light, to give sightseers travelling al night an opportunity of witnessing the river scenery. At a meeting of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, Mr Thomas, of the Maidy Colliery, described the lighting of that colliery, by are light, generated by a Gramme dynamo machine, driven by the hauling engine. ~ The electric light has for some time past beeh in use at the drapery establishment of Messrs Duff and liowntrec, of Bishop Auckland, Durham, England, and it is found that colours can be matched as easily by the new light as they can by daylight. A London paper states that when the Jabloehkoff light on the \ ietot a Embankment was first installed the charge was sixpence per lamp per hour; but, with the progress of expeiiments, site price has been reduced to about the same ao that paid for gas.

Windsor Castle will shortly be lighted by electricity. Experiments have been proceeding for some time, aud it has been determined that the Quadrangle shall be lighted with Maxim incandescent lamps, while in all probability an arc light will be fixed at the top of the Round Tower.