A Wonderful Lamp
TO REPLACE PENCARROW LIGHT FOR PROTECTION OF SHIPPING. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. On exhibition in shed No. 29, Pi.pitea Wharf, is a wonderful light which is destined to replace the Pencarrow light, not on the hillside, but down in the low level, where another small light is at present shown. It is called the Dalem-Aga light. It is the invention of a Swedish scientist, and won for a Sweden national the coveted Nobel prize. The one for Wellington is one of very few of this wonderful invention so far to be released outside Sweden. Members of the harbour board officially inspected the ligh)t during the week, when the technical details were explained by officials and the burner was set going. •It is of an intermittent type, fuelled by acetylene gas, and capable of carrying on for three moriths without attention. Gas is supplied from cylinders, and is dissolved in acetone, which has the useful property of being able to absorb 24 times its own volume of acetylene.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 27 August 1930, Page 5
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172A Wonderful Lamp Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 27 August 1930, Page 5
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