THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 729, 29 March 1881, Page 2

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

The Boston Herald gives the" following account of an experiment made on September 2nd :—A. novel exhibition of powerful electric lights was. made last evening in the vicinity of tliq Foam-llouse» Nantucket Beach, and-the rdispliy! was witnessed by quite a crowd "of; interested spectators. The Northern Electrib Light Company have erected three wooden towers, each 100 ft higli, and mounted upon each, of these a of ' twelve electric ■ lights of the., patent, each light; being at 2500 candle power. -As these towers are but 500 ft apart, and in a triangle, it will be seen that the light of 90,000 candles was concentrated within a limited-terri-tory. The design of the.exhibition was ' to afford a model of the plan contemplated for lighting cities from overhead in ve st areas, the estimate being,that four towers to a square mile of area,, each mounting lights equal to 80,000 candle power, will suffice to flood the territory around with a light almost' equal to midday. Last evening a motive power, of thirty-six horses was used in generating the electricity from three Weston machines, and the lights, with one single slight flicker, burnt steadily and brilliantly all the'evening. It is difficult to say whether the experiment proved anything or not; The claim put forward by the company iB for an original plan of lighting cities and towns by grouping and elevating electric lights of any land.