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Show Lamp Survives Blast; Still Burns UNIQUE in lighting history la the recent experience of the lamp at right in the illustration. In use by an Oklahoma City Ice cream plant, the lamp was burning brightly in its drop-cord fixture when a fire broke out. During the blaze, an ammonia tank exploded, crashed through the wall of the building, tore through an empty .barn on the opposite side of the alley, then burst through the kitch-P kitch-P of a house on the next street. When the smoke and fumes cleared away, there was the lamp, which had been directly in the path of the explosion, still burning, burn-ing, although the combined heat and pressure had softened and distorted dis-torted the bulb to its present odd shape. The lamp, which continues to function, is being preserved in a collection of lighting curios in the General Electric Institute at Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. |