Electric Lighting for Mines.
1 In a paper read before the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Glasgow, by Principal Jamieson, of the College of Science and Arts, it was stated that 1400 or 1500 lamps for electric lighting had been fitted up in different large steamers, including H.M.S. Inflexible and some first-class passenger steamers. He described in some detail the construction of the Swan lamp, and the manner in which the 117 lamps on board the Servia were fitted up, at a cost of about £1000, or eight guineas per lamp. He remarked that as yet the electric light was only used in two colleries — at Earnock and Risca. The mine-owners were very cautious, and were waiting to see whether the experiments at those two places proved successful. The lamp used in these colleries was as safe as possible hi the most explosive mixture, but it had its drawbacks, and he did not think that in its present form it had any great future before it.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1589, 6 May 1882, Page 29
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167Electric Lighting for Mines. Otago Witness, Issue 1589, 6 May 1882, Page 29
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