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The following interesting notice of electric lighting is taken from a London paper:—lending the experiments of the Metropolitan Boird of Works, which ire to familiarise the citizens, of London with the electric light as a street illuminator, prirate enterprise has undertaken to practically demonstrate the many, advantages of t-'ie new. over the .old /system of, street lighting. Eich night during the past week ;he gas lamps, in the Strand hate been thrown completely in. the shade by the pale sheen of an electrio oandle barning from a window at the^tw of the Gaiety Theatre. M. Loutin'iTdjnamcelectric machine is the generator, and this is worked in the machine room of a newspaper office near by, and the wires stretched across the street. .This identical instrument was in use .'at, the Paris Exhibition during the building operationa in the Champ de Mars. One of the special advantages claimed by M. Lontin for his generator orer rival contrivance* is that it can supply as many as 96 lamps, each, one independent of the other. •' The one in use at the Gaiety Theatre ii capable of producing a sufficient current for 24 lamps, each giving a light equal to 109 carcel burners (the French standard of light), but for the purpose of the test the engine is at present only worked up to the production of six lamps. Some of. the lamps were burned inside the theatre, hot I have not yet'witnessed them; the effect of the lamp on the outside, however,, is;to convert night into day, and to make, the glare of the gas in its vicinity leak yeUow and dismal in the extreme. The voltafo arc was screened by a glass globe, aideopaque by sulphate of tine, and this, while it moderated the intensity of the light, made, it at the same time steady and uniform. Great crowds, have been at* tracted by this novel mode of lighting, and none but favourable comments as to its efficacy are heard; v Ow of 99,009 deaths registered in Ire* land in the year 1877, in suty-seveo instances the deceased was described a* aged 100 or upwards.

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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3051, 25 November 1878, Page 2

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Untitled Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3051, 25 November 1878, Page 2

Untitled Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3051, 25 November 1878, Page 2

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