Show WANT UNIFORM CANTILE POWER movement to zo do aw away y with Pitser rt chaotic conditions pretty much ev eione thinks be knows what a candle power is the light given by a single candle ot of course As a matter ol of fact candles differ as much in ln luminosity as light kiouses Iio uses oil lamps or of fireflies anil and a candle power is not one thing but half a dogen according acco iding to the country abero the phrase is used in great britain and the united states the standard light unit Is the amount given by a spermaceti candle burning up at the rate ot of grains grain an hour alth lh a name ra 13 millimeters high etc in fiance the standard daid is made imade of and Germ germanas germanys Geiman anys ys candle was vivas until a few years ago paraffin now tile the latter country uses usen the so callee called Ile heftier frier unit of light tile the mount amount given by a certain form of lamp burning acetate of 0 amyl another lamp standard daid called the cercel was used in fiance in this purified tape lape seed eed oil Is burned because of this unsatisfactory international chaos it is now proposed pio posed that our national of standards at washington take steps to establish a stand aid international candle which would be acceptable to io at least cast nine countries tile the joint committee ot of gas and electrical engineers engine eis which la is urging this standardization declares that the change could be made with very little disturbance of most of the national standards inow nom in existence |