THE BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6001, 10 February 1881, Page 6

THE BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT.

The Brush Anglo-American Electric Light Company have commenced lighting the dials of the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament. A short time since the western face was illuminated, but the effect was marred by the dirty state of the dial and the absorption of much of the light by the brick wall behind it. A few days later the northern dial was cleaned and the interior of the chamber whitewashed. Three lamps of 2000 candles each were arranged at equal distances apart at the back of the dial, producing an illumination which for brilliancy and steadiness leaves nothing to be desired. The light is supplied from a machine driven, like most of the Brush generators, by a Brotherhood three-cylinder engine on the same bedplate, the boiler and machine being placed in one of the basements of the building at a considerable distance from the clock tower. It is intended to light all four of the dials by four lamps behind each, which will develop the full capacity of the machine, and replace about 200 gas jets, the effect of tbe illumination being, as may be imagined of a totally different character. The South-Eastern Railway Company have also determined upon lighting the Charing Cross Station by the Brush system, which will be conveyed from the Anglo-American Electric Light Company's works in the York-road, Lambeth, and at the same time to illuminate the Cannon-street Station by means of Gramme machines and Crompton lamps. This system of lighting is now becoming very general in London.