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Show BOME INTERESTING LAMPS. Very Many Incandescent lights That Ar Seal Wonders. JSIectrio lamps are made of all sizes, from 100 candle power and ovor down to one-half candle, but the small ones are decidedly the most interesting and picturesque. At a large faotory there ia a speoiai department devoted to decora' tive and miniature lamps of all shapes and colors, curious and beautiful. There are "candelabra" lamps, much used for lighting private residences, and which are generally ten candle power. Some of them are pear shaped, while others are long and tapering and of an extremely extreme-ly graceful form. They are often fitted to receptacles concealed in imitation candles, and while thoy have all th? warmth arid elegance of the old fashion, ed wax tapers thoy give a far steadiej and brighter light. One of the most striking styles is the "flame" lamn. which is a narrow cone of glass, twisted spirally and frosted, It has the beauties of a brightly burning flame, with nons of tho drawbacks. There is the eight candle powej "kinetoscope" lamp, which illuminates tho photographs on the rapidly moving celluloid strip in Edison's remarkable picture gallery. A one candlo power lamp is used for night work in telephone tele-phone exchanges. One is placed in each panel of the switchboard and lights up whenever a call comes to its territory and stays lighted until the call is answered, an-swered, so that one or two operators can easily manage all tho night business wherever it is not very heavy. Many varieties of lamps are arranged to take their current from batterios. Among these is the one candlo power miner's lamp, of a flat shape, with metal loops at top and bottom, so that it can be hooked upon springs in the miner's i intern and held steady. The lamp and tho battery togother are not hsE7y. Then there are bicyclo lamp3, microscope lamps, and lamps for medical and dental work. Some of the lamps used for illnmiuating the interior of the mouth, throat and nose are extremely umall, generally cylindrical in shape, a quarter inch or lesa in diameter and from half an inoh to an inch long. But tho tiniest of all is the "pea" lamp, g glass sphere one-quarter of an inoh in diameter. Cassier's Mugazine. |