Show A powerful light lonion london tunes anes some interesting experiments experiment were made in in public on oil friday night at the well known glass glassworks works of chance brothers company smethwick Sineth wick near birmingham with a new now lamp which they have just constructed to crown the summit of the south head lighthouse macquart harbor sydney new south wales it is called a first order revolving light with the electrical arc are the lam lamp P lias a special arrangement of prisms for securing securing vertical divergence diver genee of the beam it is over six feet in in diameter and the height is ab about ut nine line feet and it is said to be the first time fuch dimensions have been applied to illumination bf byllie tile electric arc the lamp or regulator ator has a power of about candles in the focus of light and the merging beam lias has a lumin luminous oils intensity cae exceeding ng twelve million candles the light will give hashes flashes around half the horizon orizon li at intervals of a ini minute nute and will make a complete revolution every sixteen minutes on an fill average the light will be visible a distance of forty or fifty miles tho the lamp was designed for chance by dr hookinson F P II 11 S and is constructed for the government of new south wales its makers claim that it will be the largest and most powerful light in the world the experiments were thoroughly successful the light being in so s intense that it could eardly be e endured n durad with the naked eye |