25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 253, 23 July 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Electrical Novelty

(From “The Dominion.” July 20, 1010.) The AVellington city electrical engineer, Air Stuart Rjchardson, states that there is no doubt that the more general use ot metallic filament lamps is still further cheapening the cost of lighting. In two rears the average decrease in the lighting accounts amounted to H/L or JO per cent., per consumer, for the quarter.

The first passenger airship in Switzerland has made several successful trips across the Lake of Lucerne. ,

»* • * The next event of international importance in the realm of athletic sport is the sculling race for the championship of the world, which is to be rowed on the Zambesi River on August 18, between the present champion, Richard Arnst. of New Zealand, and Barry, of England, who has done a lot of smart work on the Thames.

* ft * Brazil’s Dreadnought will carry twelve 14-inch guns. She will cost £2.900.000. [The warship referred to was the Rio de Janeiro, which, however, actually had fourteen 12-ineh guns.. She was of 27.5(10 tons displacement. AVhile on the stocks she was sold to Turkey, but the war broke out before she was completed, and ' she became the British ship Agincourt. The Agincourt was scrapped n few years after the war.]