Fig. 2
According to the inventor, this lamp will give a light of 100 carcels per one horse-power, and with a three horse-power six lamps may be lighted; but we have made no experiments to ascertain the correctness of these figures.
As for the cost of the glass rods, that amounts to one franc per two hundred meters length. They can, then, be considered only as an insignificant expense in the cost of the carbons. We consequently believe that it will be possible to employ this system advantageously in practice.--Th. du Moncel.
Fig. 3
MONDOS'S ELECTRIC LAMP.
Since the month of May last, the concert at the Champs Elysées has been lighted by sixteen voltaic arc lamps on a new and very simple system, which gives excellent results in the installation under consideration. The sixteen lamps are on the divisible system, and their regulation is based upon the principle of derivation. They are supplied by a Siemens alternating current machine and arranged in four circuits, on each of which are mounted four lamps in series. The accompanying figures will allow the reader to readily understand the system, which is as simple as it is ingenious, and which has been combined by Mr. Mondos so as to obtain a continuous and independent regulation of each lamp.
In this system the lower carbon is stationary, the luminous point descending in measure as the carbons wear away through combustion. The upper carbon descends by its own weight, and imperceptibly, so as to keep the arc at its normal length.