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Show SOME INTERESTING LAMPS. err Many Incandescent Lights That An lieal Wonders. JSlectrio lamps are made of all sizes, from 100 candle power and over down tocnc-half caudle, but the small ones are decidedly the most interesting and picturesque. At a largo factory there is a special department devoted to decorative 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 they have all the warmth and elegance of the old fashioned fashion-ed wax tapers tbey give a far steadier and brighter light. One of the mosf striking styles is the "flame" lamp, which is a narrow cone of glass, twisted 6pirally and frosted. It has the beautie? of a brightly burning flame, with non of the drawbacks. There is the eight candle power "kinetoscope" lamp, which illuminates the photographs on the rapidly moving celluloid strip in Edison's remarkable picture gallery. A one caudle power lamp is used for night work iu 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 the 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 candle 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 l intern and held steady. The lamp aad the battery together are not heavy. Then there are Licyclo lamps, microscope lamps, and lamps for medical and dental work. Some of the lamps used for illuminating the interior of the mouth, throat and nose are extremely small, gonerally cylindrical ia shape, a quarter inch or less in diameter and from half an inch to an inch long. But the tiniest of all is the "pea" lamp, c glass sphere one-quarter of an inch in diameter. Cassier's Magazine. J |