Electric Jewels.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 270, 11 October 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)

Electric Jewels.

M. Trotjve, the well-known Parisian electrical instrument maker, has devised a number of very pretty personal ornaments, such as breastpins, diadems, and brooches, which, while resembling jewelled articles, possess a still greater brilliance. They are made by means of miniature electric incandescence lamp 3, enclosed m gold or silver cases, studded with colored glass or " paste " gems, lighted from within by the lamp. Wires are led from the lamp to a small pocket bichromate battery of from two to five cells, coupled m series, and enclosed m an ebonite case of three compartments, and having double sides. The case for three cells is only seven centimetres long by ten high, and six thick. The light lasts for thirty-five minutes. While upon this subject, we "may mention that fireflies have been imitated at a place of entertainment m Vienna, by means of fine swinging wires, each bearing a tiny incan-

descent lamp at its end, and representing the flashes of a firefly dancing among the foliage by Kiulden eclipses of the light, produced by interrupting the current m tho wires. The best battery for such purposes, or for buttonhole and bouquet lights carried on tho person, ia undoubtedly formed by the tiny chloride of silver cells made by Messrs. Elliott and Co. They giva a brilliant light for several h •■> ■•, not merely for a few minutca as eui^.. accumulators do.