had been attained so as to produce the I requisite illumination, the iron wire would hnve been fused into drops of liquid, the current would have been broken, and the lamp would have been destroyed. Nor would the attempt to make an incandescent lamp have proved much more successful had the filament been made of any other metal. The least fusible of metals is the costly element platinum, but even a wire of platinum, though it would stand much more heat than a wire of iron or of steel, would not have retained the solid form by the time it had been raised to the temperature necessary for an incandescent lamp.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5460, 11 January 1896, Page 2
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111Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Star (Christchurch), Issue 5460, 11 January 1896, Page 2
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