LIT FROM LONDON.
A candle lighted by Sir William Bragg, the scientist, in London, lighted the entrance hall of the New York Museum of Science and Industry in the Rockefeller Centre, more than 3000 miles away. Before lighting the candle Sir William Bragg stated that he was sitting at the table of Faraday, pioneer of electricity and magnetism. Then he struck a match and lighted the candle. The energy of the candle flame in London was converted.into radiations which were sent across the Atlantic over the Post Office short-wave radio circuit. Reaching New York, the radiation switched on a Westinghouse lamp made 50 years ago, and the light of the lamp operated a photo-electric cell which operated a number of electric switches of the lamps in New York.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1936, Page 17
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128LIT FROM LONDON. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1936, Page 17
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