Tho electric light ha* bain utiiisod on board the Orient Lino stoamor Ohiwhorato, which left Gravesond for Australia last week. The installation consists of a Gramme machine generating the oum-nt by which seven incandescent lamps lining iirnm. carbons are worked. Four of t hose oro fixed in the first-class saloon, and the remainder in the .storage. The lamps are placed in scries, but a resistance eoil and automatic switch render each independent of its neighbour. Several spare lamps are carried, whioh can Ihj worked from the same machine. Tho whole current can also bo iiwitchfll on to a Crompton arc lamp, whioh is contaiuod in a special lantern fitted with a reflector. Thin will bo usod when in port for loading and discharging cargo" The actual illuminating power of too large Ump is 4000 candles, while each of the snail incaudes* rout lights is about seventy. It is propond to oxteod the lighting to other parti of the ship on her return.--Home News,
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 170, 30 October 1880, Page 2
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