A GREAT ELECTRICITY SHOW.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2720, 7 December 1881, Page 3

A GREAT ELECTRICITY SHOW.

The scientific correspondent of the “ Times ” writing of the great ex hibition of electrical machines and lights and motors and apparatus of all kinds, which was opened at Paris last August says :—There are 30 steam engines and 15 gas engines to be employed in the generation of the electricity, and the business of fixing them in in position has been greater than was expected, Tbe display when finished will be greater than anything that has ever been seen in the world. The Gramme machine is the favored child of the French nation, and will be represented more fully than any other system ; but some notion of what is in store for visitors will be gained from _ the fact that, among other exhibitors, the Brush Company are showing a light which is said to be equal to 150,000 candles, the carbons being each two inches in diameter; while Mr Swan has altogether 1,000 of his incandescent lamps, of which 480 are allotted to the conference-room. Machines which will give a current powerful enough to work 30 or 40 lamps, each of a power of 2,000 candles, are to be seen in all parts of the building, and 390 dynamoelectric machines will be at work for a fortnight. When we look at these facts we can scarcely credit the assertion that the whole of this development is the result of only 10 years. Yet such is actually the case. It was then that M. Gramme brought out bis machine, which was the first form which was really successful.