Show WANT UNIFORM CANDLE POWER movement to do away with present chaotic conditions pretty much everyone thinks he be knows what a candle power Is the light given by a single candle of 0 course As a matter of 0 fact candles differ as much in luminosity as light louses Iio uses oil lamps or fireflies and a candle power Is not one thing but half a dogen according to the country where the phrase Is used la in great britain and the united states the standard light unit Is the amount given by a spermaceti candle burning up at the rate of grains an hour with a flame 45 millimeters high etc in france the standard Is made of 0 and germanys germanas Germ anys candle was until a lew few years ago paraffin now the latter country uses the so bo called hefner unit ot of light the amount given by a certain torm form of 0 lamp burning acetate of 0 amyl another lamp standard called tho the carcel was used in france in this purified rapo rape seed oil Is burned because of 0 this unsatisfactory international chaos it Is now proposed that our national bureau ot of standards at washington take steps to establish a standard international candle which would be acceptable to at least nine countries the joint committee ot of gas and electrical engineers which la is urging this standardization declares that the change could be made with ve very ry little disturbance of 0 most of 0 the national standards now in emi existence stence |