NEW PENCARROW LIGHT
SWEDISH SCIENTIST'S DEVICS NO ATTENTION IN THREE MONTHS. WON THE COVETED NOBEL PRIZE. • By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.' On exhibition in Shed No. 29,’Pipi® tea Wharf, is a wonderful light, which is destined to replace the Pencarrow light, not on the hill site, but down on a 4iw level, where another femstll light is at • present shown. It is called th® Dalem-Aga Light. It is the invention of a Swedish scientist and won for Sweden a coveted Nobel prize. The light for Wellington is one of the very few of this wonderful invention so far released outside Sweden. Members bi the Wellington Harbour Board ofijciallY inspected the light during the week?, when the technical details were explained by officials and the burner was set going. The light is of an intermittent type, fuelled. by acetylene gas and eaW able of carrying on for three montpft without attention. The gas is supplied from cylinders and is dissolved in ace--tone, which has the useful property of being able to absorb 24 times its own volume of acetylene. !
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1930, Page 11
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