Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 274
f theelectric communications being seen. Fig. 137 shows Mr. Swans lamp for lighting the galleries ofmines. At a meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, in Lon-don, November 24,1880, Mr. Swan gave the following interestingaccount of the origin of his lamp: Electric lighting by means of the… … Fig. 136. tioned, namely, by the white heat of a continuous conductor,was barely glanced at in these discussions. This method ofelectric lighting is, however, theoretically so good, that, suppos-ing the practical difficulties which surround it can be sur-mounted, it instantly assumes a position of…
Electrical engineering
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